Starting from where you are, turning attention - heart and breath - to that which is greater open the door to the ladder of being. Closing the door is "sin" - dependence upon oneself to the exclusion of That Which IS. Ideal Divine lifts one who comes toward that, asking. In heart, in deed, in thought, in breath, each step is opened and one is lifted, supported by the Only Giver, Supporter, and Lifter, until union leaves that last sin, separation, thought of self, far below.