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The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man.
No Souvenirs (1977)
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.
It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing.
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002)
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.
The Myth of the Eternal Return (1954)
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.
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
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.
Myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary.
Myth and Reality (1963)
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
Images and Symbols (1952)
The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life.
The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane.
The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world.
The Structure of Religious Knowing : Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan (2004)
The history of religions will inevitably attain to a deeper knowledge of man. It is on the basis of such knowledge that a new humanism, on a world-wide scale, could develop.
The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)
Further, exegetes and theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity.
The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
Yoga, is a ’science’ of achieving the transformation of finite man into the infinite One, has to be recognized as something intrinsically Indian or, as ’a specific dimension of the Indian mind.’
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.
The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011)
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011)
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.
Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints.
Myth and Reality (1963)
In short, myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary.
Myth and Reality (1963)