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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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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he…
— Janet Morris
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When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when…
— Krysten Ritter
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But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three…
— Kelly Cutrone
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I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes…I have done my…
— Charles Manson
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I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you…
— Herbert Hoover
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my…
— Barbara Corcoran
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready…
— Unknown Author
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Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
— Carl Yastrzemski
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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…
— Mircea Eliade
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
— Paul Desmond
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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at…
— David Markson
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