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