A Single Mountain

All must climb.

The paths are many. Some circuitous. Some direct. 

Yet all must climb.

Whether in life or beyond death.

Many creeds demand singularity of Faith. Mine does not. It demands sincerity of belief reflected in actions.

Calling the mountain by one name or another does not make it a different mountain. It speaks of the personal journey that brought us to the foot of the Mountain. As we wander the paths at the foot of the Mountain we meet others, some follow our way some paces, others merely cross our paths and are gone.

We are wrong to declare our way is THE way. It can never be that. It is only one way to approach the Mountain. Our Way. Unique to Ourselves. Even the symbols we encounter are not in a distinct and single order. We encounter them as is appropriate to our journey. They are recognisable to us, because we have made the journey before. As we rectify our alignment, so we grow, and as we grow, so we embrace more of the All That Is.

Those who seek to separate, distinguish themselves from others, deny the wholeness of their own belief system. Claiming God to be their own they forget that God Is All, and therefore belongs to all, is accessible to all. By dividing they destroy the Unity which is the Totality. Atomic bombs, Holy Places, as if these were Creations and not productions of the mind of humans. Even the denial of formless intelligences governing the Earth is denied by many. Yet it is by Their Grace that we even live. Embrace and behold Wholeness. Lay aside vindication and excuse.

By increasing injustice in the world you will never establish a Just world. 

Author: Keith Armstrong

Dance teacher, writer, film-maker, educationalist, enthusiast.