"In imitating the exemplary acts of a god……" — 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 himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time."
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Mircea Eliade
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22 Quotes by Mircea Eliade
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ...…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of…
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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…
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not…
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other…
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition 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…
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I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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