"As long as you have not grasped that……" — Mircea Eliade

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

— Mircea Eliade

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22 Quotes by Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ...…
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to…
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because…
The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the…
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to…
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of…
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had…
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not…
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other…
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of…
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the…
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are…

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