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The Ottoman takeover of Mecca and Medina did not simply represent more land and revenue for the empire. It made Selim the “Protector of the Holy Cities,” the caliph—the undisputed leader of the Muslim world.
Alan Mikhail • God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
The reason why he refers to our real nature metaphorically as ‘the heart’ is that it is the core or centre of ourself as the ego or mind — the seeming awareness that is aware of things that appear to be other than itself.
Michael James • Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is
Since it cannot be ultimate if it’s a relative thing, then we find ourselves having no refuge at all in the end.
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
“to be the student and beneficiary of all traditions, and the slave to none.”
Brian C. Muraresku • The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
For Gautama the “Awakened One” or Buddha (died c. 545 B.C.) lived at a time when the major Upanishads were already in existence, and their philosophy must be seen as the point of departure for his own teaching. It would be a serious mistake, however, to look upon the Buddha as the “founder” or “reformer” of a religion which came into being as some
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Freedom
Robin Harford • 3 cards
[Was Zafar] the original mover, the head and front of the undertaking, or but the consenting tool…the forward, unscrupulous, but still pliant puppet, tutored by priestly craft for the advancement of religious bigotry? Many persons, I believe, will incline to the latter. The known restless spirit of Mahommedan fanaticism has been the first aggressor
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