Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

The line redirects the desire for external, spectacular interventions (“miracles”) toward an inward recognition of human existence as already extraordinary. It suggests that waiting for salvation, luck, or divine exception can become a form of avoidance, whereas acknowledging one’s own consciousness, resilience, and capacity to act is itself transformative. In this reading, “miracle” is not a supernatural event but the improbable fact of being alive and able to choose, create, and change. The aphorism also carries a quietly anti-passive ethic: meaning and renewal are not primarily found by searching outward, but by recognizing and exercising the agency and wonder already present in the self.