In my life I have tried to learn from many teachers.
From Buddhism I have tried to learn to turn my childish prayers of fear and desire into peaceful awareness.
From Hinduism I have tried to learn to attune myself to the one cosmic dance.
From Islam I have tried to learn that I do not belong to myself and so to give myself away completely.
From Mysticism I have tried to to learn to sit in reverent unknowing.
From Paganism I have tried to learn a reverent “nakedness” before the one holy temple of nature.
From Atheism I have tried to learn radical honesty and preferring lessons learned from the natural world to what I personally want to believe.
From Judaism I have tried to learn a longer story than my own, and to work for universal human rights.
From Stoicism I have tried to focus on what I can control and let the rest fall away.
From Taoism I have tried to learn that wisdom includes tuning ourselves to the processes of nature.
From my own Christian tradition I have tried to learn that every true virtue is actually an aspect of love.
From every tradition, person and event I have tried to learn to expand my horizons in the hope that someday I will be able to find compassion for everyone, everywhere, all the time.