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Karen Armstrong · 2006
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What this book knows
The Axial Age sages across four civilizations independently discovered that compassion, not ritual power, is the ground of lasting wisdom.
faith-and-doubt
Christians had experienced Jesus' mission as a kenosis — he did not cling to his high status, but emptied himself for humanity.
GTBO-RC-076Oedipus had to abandon his certainty and supposed insight to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.
GTA-RC-266transformation
The bodhisattvas sacrificed their own happiness, returning to samsara to teach other people to find liberation.
GTBO-RC-071Gotama explained it could take seven years — gradually the aspirant would learn to live without selfish cravings that poison our lives.
GTA-RC-291obedience-and-authority
Yahweh was moved by the plight of the needy and rewarded practical compassion as much as cultic purity.
GTBO-RC-044Knowledge of the li was vital in diplomacy; the ru helped princes use rites politically so a junzi could voice his opposition.
GTA-RC-120Illuminates
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