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

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


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



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The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.



The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.



If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.



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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 only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.



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