The Commonality of our Infinite Variety

At COOL our tagline is “Many Paths, One Spirit.”  What does that mean?  How can we all choose our own individual path, and yet come together each week in study, song, message, meditation, spiritual practice—in unity?  How can people across worlds and cultural divides and varying belief systems ever achieve peace and harmony?  For that matter, how can we even truly befriend someone who holds beliefs with which we strongly disagree?  By  finding the unity in the variety—the common threads that tie all of humanity.   What are they?  How can we activate them in our lives?