The joy of life is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world.
Mircea Eliade
Destiny is that part of time which represents the history's will printed on us.
Mircea Eliade
To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
Mircea Eliade
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.
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 societydetaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
Mircea Eliade
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.
Mircea Eliade
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.
Mircea Eliade
Myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality - an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution.
Mircea Eliade
In love, no certainty is ultimate... That elementary thing - the feeling that you are loved - must be certified again and again, because one doubt,one mistake razes everything to madness and ecstasy.
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
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.
Mircea Eliade
Myth is always an account of a "creation"; it relates how something was produced, began to be.
Mircea Eliade
Nothing lasts within the heart. Even the most certified conviction can be annulled by a single gesture.
Mircea Eliade
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane.
Mircea Eliade
Myth means a "true story" and, beyond that, a story that is a most precious possession because it is sacred, exemplary, significant.
Mircea Eliade
