Isaiah 56:7 · World English Bible
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
The mountain is the ancient image of the hierarchy of value, the single high place a soul climbs toward when it aims at what is highest. The climb is open.
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The mountain is the ancient image of the hierarchy of value, the single high place a soul climbs toward when it aims at what is highest. The climb is open. Those the world had shut out, the foreigner and the maimed man who thought himself barred forever, are brought up the slope and set at the center. The height was never reserved for the few who were born near it.
What makes the offering acceptable is the aim behind it, not the pedigree of the one who brings it. Any person who orders himself upward and gives what he has may lay it on the altar and have it received. Joy waits at the top of that ascent, not exclusion. The door to the highest good stands open to anyone willing to make the climb.
Clinical Psychology lens
Who have I been treating as if the door were not open to them?
Come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. This gathering is not a court that checks your papers at the door.
Whoever turns toward the highest with a whole heart is received, whatever their birth or standing. The aim is what counts, not the pedigree.
The Buddha took students from every caste, and the river that receives many streams no longer asks which stream is which.
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