A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To….

It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening r….

Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himsel….

Light does not come from light, but from darkness..

For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have….

To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing ….

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their particip….

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane..

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe..

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics..

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is..

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence..

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and th….

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curin….

When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute ….

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist..

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a ….

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth"..

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himsel….

The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of relig….

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show som….