The depth of any great religion, whose roots go off in axial time, is closer to the depth of another great faith than its own surface. The difference between languages and images of religious experience cannot be eliminated; it is inseparable from the difference of cultures in the multicolour world. Dialogue does not erase this multicolour. But it leads to the depth, where all the differences look like the refraction of a single ray of the inner light that lit up the world in antiquity and gave the power to the formation of cultural planets gravitating towards globality and remaining sub-global only because of the ancient insurmountability of the oceans and deserts. Today we must continue the beginning and re-see the world as a spiritual whole. Seeing, we will create it.

Tribute to Saint Francis in Meditation by F. Zurbaran 

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