This TED Talk features General Counsel, author and idea acupuncturist Anjali Kumar, recorded live at TED Women 2017.

A few years ago, I set out on a mission to find God. Now, I'm going to tell you right up front that I failed, which, as a lawyer, is a really hard thing for me to admit.

But on that failed journey, a lot of what I found was enlightening.

And one thing in particular gave me a lot of hope,

and it has to do with the magnitude and significance of our differences.

So I was raised in America by Indian parents,

culturally Hindu, but practicing a strict and relatively unknown religion

outside of India called Janism.

To give you an idea of just how minority that makes me,

people from India represent roughly 1% of the U.S. population. Hindus, about 0.7%.

Jans, at most, 0.00046%. To put that in context, more people visit the Vermont teddy bear factory

each year than our followers,

the Jan religion in America.

To add to my minority mix, my parents then decided, what a great idea, let's send her

to Catholic school, where my sister and I were the only non-white, non-Catholic students

in the entire school.

At the infant Jesus of Prague School in Flossmore, Illinois,

yes, that's really what it was called,

we were taught to believe that there is a single supreme being

who is responsible for everything,

the whole shebang,

from creation of the universe to moral shepherding to eternal life.

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