More Pathways

"A third pathway to God is to do precisely the same with respect to others. I find God — I recognize God — in other people. And I can come into contact with God through my relationships with other people. If they are loving, if they are supportive relationships, if they are relationships that achieve some kind of joy, if I see other people blossoming as a consequence of our relationship, somehow I experience the presence of God. So another path to God is through other human beings.

"And then the fourth way would be the natural world. There are times in our experiences with the world around us that we become aware of forces for good, and beauty, and harmony — and whatever other adjectives you want to use — but we call those forces a name: God.

"It’s not that one pathway is somehow better than the other," the Rabbi added. "They are all pathways. Like opening one of four doors and that door gets you ultimately to the same conclusion. They are all available pathways to us. What I find is that some people are more receptive to one pathway and some people are more receptive to another, and they should journey on their particular pathway."

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