In his book Peace is the Way, Deepak Chopra writes “If you shift your allegiance to peace, war ends for you today.  This happens one person at a time, but it works.  A million tiny earthquakes move more ground than a single cataclysmic quake.  There is no better or easier way to live than by catching the wave of evolution.  How hard is it to look up and say, Today is a good day for war to end.”⁵

The hope, and dream, that I hold for this website is that people from all faiths will discover (and affirm) that the journey towards God is a wide, collective passage... with many entrances and multiple starting points – all leading to one avenue:  the ‘Heart of God’.

I can imagine (and I would hope that we all can imagine) a world void of intolerance, bigotry, and prejudice:  a New Garden – a sacred ‘Orchard of Peace’.  And if we can picture, and inspire, a planet – a civilization – that embraces dignity and respect and love for all people... while [at the same time] respecting, and preserving, individual ethnic and traditional customs, and religious beliefs.  Then we can shape a world that experiences the joys of peace and the comforts of caring – caring for one other regardless of religion, or race.

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Today is a good day to begin our new spiritual quest.  All religions together.  All as one – distinct, yet collective.  A New Beginning.  One person at a time.  One community at a time.  One nation at a time. All journeying, together... towards God.

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1. Chittister, Joan, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow.  The Tent of Abraham:  Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 2006.
2. Chopra, Deepak.  Peace Is the Way.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 2005.
3. Chittister, Joan, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow.  The Tent of Abraham:  Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 2006.
4. ibid.
5. Chopra, Deepak.  Peace Is the Way.  New York:  Three Rivers Press, 2005.