“All religions enjoined worship of the One God who was all-pervasive. He is present in a drop of water or even in a tiny speck of dust. ~ Gandhi, Mahatma, 7. P. 115

Our Mahatma is seeing past the all-too-common misuses of religions to the One Vision shared by their great founders: that God is one (or, as Islam and Judaism and others put it, The One) and that this one reality has manifested itself as the universe—all of it without exception. It is the authority of this great vision, tragically, that has tempted so many who did not in fact share it to misuse it as a tool for sharpening, rather than seeing beyond the differences among human beings, and of course emptied the world we live on of its sacred significance. War and all exploitation of the environment will stop cold when (I don’t dare say “if”) we recapture that vision.

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