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The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Jeff Shaara

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Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914

by Prit Buttar

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The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922 by Edmond Taylor

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His fatal insensitivity to the public temper in Bosnia demonstrates how little human contact there was between the Habsburgs and their subjects.

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“And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: divine, enlightenment, god, islam, muslim, soul, spiritual, spirituality, sufi

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“The tranquil passivity he sets out to reach, will eventually deepen and deepen until a point is felt where thinking is still and the mind emptied. Into this inner silence there enters, we know not how, the Overself’s godlike consciousness.”
― Paul Brunton, A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Classic Work of Mystical Quest

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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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“Those who spend sufficient time on the mystical quest, and with sufficient keenness and guidance, find it infinitely inspiring because it links them—however remotely weakly and momentarily—with an infinite power, an infinite wisdom, an infinite goodness.”
― Paul Brunton, A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Classic Work of Mystical Quest

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