Melinda French Gates

My gosh.

And even when I was a kid, I was like, okay, but people who are Indians believe in these native spirits, but we have a God and only our God is the right one?

How can that be?

Or I knew other kids who were Jewish who thought different beliefs, and I'm like –

So they're wrong?

Like our church thought they were wrong.

And not only are they wrong, they're going to hell.

Yes.

Right.

You just started to realize, no, no, no, there's absolutely a universal spirituality, but whatever it is and wherever it is,

it also is in connection to one another and people.

And you see it.

You see it often in the goodness of people or in some person in very difficult circumstances helping somebody else, right?

They have very little meager means themselves, and yet they're giving a dollar to that other family.

Or you see it with a family who's caring for a loved one who's dying.

And so I've come to believe that

That there's not one God, there's a spirituality, a spiritual force in the universe, whatever it is.

And when we tap into it, some of the most beautiful things in life happen.

And one of my favorite musicals is Les Miserables.

And at the end of it, it says—and I didn't ever see it until I was like in my early 20s—