This coming week is one that has significant meaning for people of various religious beliefs. It is of great benefit to learn the meaning and beauty of others’ beliefs. I have had the benefit of dear mentors in the Christian,Jewish,Muslim and Buddhist communities. I also have been exposed to wonderful minds who espouse the beauty and relevance of humanism. All of these paths have not been blended into a pap without vitality. They are and should be paths to sisters and brothers of various beliefs listening to and relishing diversity. It is not naive to embrace the cherished tenets of others, because the world is strewn with the casualties of those who blindly defended  their beliefs without exploring the wonder of those who are different