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• No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

  Nicole Krauss

  Justice, Waiting, Storm

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• What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

  Susan Griffin

  Yield, Insight, Aesthetic

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.191, Open Road Media

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• When we come to it
  We must confess that we are the possible
  We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world,
  that is when, and only when we come to it

  Maya Angelou

  World, Wonder, This World

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.

  DeVon Franklin

  Thinking, People, Underestimate

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• Waking up in the morning, you didn't have to even think, you did it. Being able to get to work, didn't even have to think, you did it. That's miraculous.

  DeVon Franklin

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

  "This May Cause Miracles!". Interview with Mastin Kipp, thedailylove.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.

  Brad Willis

  Healing, Transformation, Inspired

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• The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

  Amos Oz

  Curiosity, Alternatives, Realization

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

  Edward Young

  Mistake, Men, Bears

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.16

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• There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Perfect, Dumb

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Divinity, Unfolding, True Success

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.9, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

  Archilochus

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Eclipse" by James Turrell, 1999.

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• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  Ben Klassen

  Moon, Men, Race

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

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• I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Rama

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• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

  Jonathan Schell

  Knees, Reason, Creation

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.156, Stanford University Press

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• If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

  Don Richard Riso

  Personality, Joy, Wake Up

  Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve.  Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Acceptance, People, Growth

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• Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Strong, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3094, Delphi Classics

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• What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Reading, Healing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Hands, Order

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• Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Struggle, Joy, Grace

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• The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.

  George H. Smith

  Ignorance, Imagination, Design

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• I felt that on a basis of a "search for the miraculous" it would be possible to unite together a very large number of people who were no longer able to swallow the customary forms of lying and living in lying.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Lying, Numbers, People

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.

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