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[jenk]

I've been surprising people lately by my acceptance of other faiths & beliefs. It seems expected that one who claims to be a Christian will - I don't quite know exactly, but freak out, shrivel into a nothingness, or explode all seem like possiblities - at the mention of Pagans. Or the Goddess. Or a spell. Strange.

Thumbing through Madeleine L'Engle's book Glimpses of Grace, I ran across the following:

Christ can speak to me through the white china Buddha who sits on my desk at Crosswicks and smiles at me toleranty when I fly into a torrent of outrage or self-pity. That forbearing smile helps restore my sense of proportion, and rids me of that self-will which keeps me caught up in myself so that I am isolating myself from Christ. Of course I am no more likely to become a Buddhist than my parents were likely to turn to Islam when they framed those lovely verses from the Koran.

And:

In one of his dialogues, Plato talks of all learning as remembering. The chief job of the teacher is to help us to remember all that we have forgotten. This fits in well with Jung's concept of racial memory, his belief that when we are enabled to dip into the intuitive, subconscious self, we remember more than we know.

My thought? There are many different roads in life, meandering through varying terrain. Yet we are all travelers, and we can often help each other. I'll take lessons & wisdom wherever I find them.