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Curiosity is amazingly important.

The Bible says, “Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”5 Your first step in spiritual growth is to start changing the way you think. Change always starts first in your mind. The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you act. Paul said, “There must be a spiritual renewal

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.

can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?

Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.