Icon

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An icon is designed to be not a beautiful

work of art, but a window into divine

mysteries. It points beyond itself.

M. Craig Barnes, The Pastor As Minor Poet: Texts and

Subtexts in the Ministerial Life

Epiphany

RC1_0137, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Epiphany may also mean a privileged moment in our life among the things of this world, in which they suddenly reveal something we have not noticed until now; and that something is like an intimation of their mysterious, hidden side.

Czeslaw Milosz, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Seeing beyond

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Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

Neutrality

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Music

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Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A Sincere Life

“MA VIE EST MON MESSAGE” 

“MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE”

Mahatma Ghandi [1869-1948]

     If you ask people in India why is it that Mahatma Gandhi was able to

     do what he did in India, they will say they followed him because of

     his absolute sincerity. … Any time he made a mistake, even in his

     personal life, or even a decision that he made in the independence

     struggle, he came out in public and said, “I made a mistake.”

       Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-1968]