Reply #78: The path we come to [View All]

[Az]

There are a multitude of beliefs. Each and everyone of them formed by people that live in this world. We apply our minds to sifting through the things we experience and from this we begin to form our understanding of the world around us.

No two people start out on the same path. No two people face the same hurdles or enjoy the same advantages. We each take from our journey different lessons and work them into our world view and ever increase our understanding of it.

The thing of it is though these paths may not follow a set course but they do intertwine. It is the same world we all observe and this gives a shared context for us all. There are places in our jouney where more paths tend to meet coming to similar ideas through different routes.

The path we come to is one that embraces tolerance and compassion. It is one of shared burdens and joys. We need not have traveled the same path to appreciate the sense of the path we have come to.

Your journey has value to you. My journey may lead me to disagree with some of the details and explanations your journey has shown you. But this does not detract from our shared appreciation of where our journeys have lead us. To embrace the ideas of tolerance, compassion, and freedom.

I think the most critical issue that differentiates those that come to this path and those that never seem to arrive is that we are able to find our way to our positions through our journeys but we do not insist that others agree with our conclusion because our path is the only one. We instead seem to realise that our perspective is uniquely our own and that our personal reasons may not work for others. So we try to interpret our reasoning into a more universally understandable explanation. We do not insist our way is so because the very laws of the universe demand it. Instead we try to explain them in ways that others can apply the reasoning to their own paths and make the idea their own as well.

I can respect your values quite easily. As they seem to be similar to the ones I have found on the path that I have come to.