A miracle is an event that exceeds what the ordinary order of things can account for — and every tradition has its own account of them, from the parting of the Red Sea to the healing touch of Jesus to the siddhi powers attributed to advanced yogis to the interventions of Orisha in the lives of Candomblé practitioners. The modern mind tends to divide sharply between those who accept miracles uncritically and those who dismiss them entirely — but the more interesting position is the one the traditions themselves often occupy: a rigorous attention to what is actually happening, without foreclosing the possibility that reality is stranger and more generous than the ordinary categories allow. What all miracle accounts share is the claim that the world is not a closed system — that something from beyond its ordinary logic can enter it.
Rumi