Connecting to Love

    When you enter a beautiful forest, you do not say "only the birch trees are beautiful" or "the maples are better than the oaks."  You admire the beauty and diversity of all the trees in the forest.

    People who think their religion is better than other religions are missing the beauty of diversity.  Each religion has a unique character that enables it to speak to certain people and not to others.

    If we don't respect other traditions, we will weaken our own.  Our narrowness and prejudice will be obvious to all who listen to us.  Only by treating people of other faiths with love and acceptance will we give our tradition a good name.

    Indeed, only by connecting to the core teaching of love within our tradition can we pass that teaching on to our children.  A barren tree will make no fruit.  A religion that does not help its followers connect to love will not prosper.

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