“If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.”
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Widely credited to Gandhi on quote sites (BrainyQuote etc.) but no work, speech or letter is cited; it reads as a paraphrase of his 'many paths to one God' teaching rather than a verbatim documented line.
Likely origin: No reliable primary source; reads as a modern paraphrase of Gandhi's genuine religious-pluralism view (one God, many paths).
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The deeper you go into your own tradition, the more you meet the same essentials — humility, love, awe — sitting at the core of others. Surface differences in ritual and language divide people; the shared center tends to unite them, turning rivalry into quiet recognition.
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- People of different faiths who discover, serving the poor side by side, that their core values match.
- A traveler who understands his own beliefs better after months living inside another culture.
- A study group where going deep into each tradition builds respect instead of argument.