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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A…
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To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood…
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because…
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because…
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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
— Swami Paramananda
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The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us…
— Mother Angelica
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What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the…
— Louis Althusser
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
— Mircea Eliade
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In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything,…
— Sigmund Freud
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The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from…
— Pope Francis
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Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We…
— Timothy Keller
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The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick…
— Gustave Flaubert
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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which…
— Galileo Galilei
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The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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