Many Ways to God
I arise early, on this morning, the eve of the beginning of Advent, a sacred season, on the heels of Thanksgiving, with my heart filled to the brim with rich experiences... I sit in meditation, and begin to prepare for Advent... On the LONG flight back from Istanbul (12 hours), I was able to sit and reflect on these experiences, and I thought to myself - there are truly - many ways to God... This is one of the lessons that I learned... All paths lead to God... All traditions find their completion in God... I have always had a deep reverence for other spiritual traditions, and have found myself equally at home in almost of all of them... In my very early 20's, as an undergraduate student, I took a graduate course on contemporary Jewish philosophers and Zionist writers, under the guidance of a Reconstructionist Rabbi. I was drawn to Judaism all of my life, and later learned I had both Sephardic and Ashkenazi roots in my background. In my early 30's, I lost myself in studying Budd...