Closer

This is from the Painted Prayerbook:

In one of his homilies, Dorotheos invited his hearers to imagine such a circle, with God as the center point. 

The straight lines drawn from the circumference to the center are the lives of human beings,” Dorotheos said. “…To move toward God, then, human beings move from the circumference along the various radii of the circle to the center. But at the same time, the closer they are to God, the closer they become to one another; and the closer they are to one another, the closer they become to God.” [Dorotheos's quote can be found in Bondi's splendid book To Love as God Loves.]

To move closer to God, we must move closer to each other, and the closer we move to other people, the closer we move to God.  I believe there is wisdom in that statement.