Different Quote by Mircea Eliade

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

— Mircea Eliade

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world;…

— Thomas Carlyle

The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an…

— Anthony Lawlor

Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing…

— Joan D. Chittister

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

— A.W. Tozer

The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now…

— Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

“Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in…

— Michael Meade

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

— Bernard DeVoto

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane…

— Emile Durkheim

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

— Sam Keen

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of…

— Joel S. Goldsmith