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 therefore forgets or despises eternity.
Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence. - Mircea Eliade
Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.
- Mircea Eliade
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditione… - Mircea Eliade
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditione…
Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to h… - Mircea Eliade
Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to h…
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body. - Mircea Eliade
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
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… - Mircea Eliade
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…
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane. - Mircea Eliade
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.
Light does not come from light, but from darkness. - Mircea Eliade
Light does not come from light, but from darkness.
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… - Mircea Eliade
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 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… - Mircea Eliade
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…
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