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3 quotes from The Sacred and the Profane

• "The sacred is the experience of the ‘wholly other’; the world becomes a plane of eternal time and space in which life is given meaning through the divine."
• "For the traditional man, the cosmos is not a study of nature; it is a sacred reality that he lives within and which informs every aspect of his life."
• "Every act of the sacred manifests its presence in places, objects, and events that delineate the boundaries between the sacred and the profane."

Author: Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade was a Romanian-born historian of religion, renowned philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago, celebrated as one of the foremost interpreters of world religions in the last century. A remarkably prolific writer, he authored over 1,300 works, both fiction and non-fiction, throughout his 60-year career. His breakthrough book, "Le Mythe de l'Éternel Retour" (1949), offered profound insights into religious symbols and imagery, further solidifying his international reputation. Eliade's explorations often delved into the realms of the unconscious, with a recurring theme of erotic love at the core of many of his novels.