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Light Blends Into Light

The wind merges into the wind. The light blends into the light. The dust becomes one with the dust.

Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Havelock Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB2

What support is there for the one who is lamenting? Who has died? O, who has died?

From the Guru Granth Sahib

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The Presence of the Buddha

Hearing these answers,
the deva was overflowing with joy.

Battersea Peace Pagoda, Battersea Park, Wandsworth, SW11

 Then clasping hands, bowed down in respect and
disappeared suddenly from the presence of the Buddha.

From Paul Carus’ The Gospel of Buddha (1894)

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St Thomas More

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town;

L Cubitt Bevis' St Thomas More, Chelsea Old Church, Kensington & Chelsea, SW3

some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

From Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)

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