Beauty is an encounter with the sacred; it awakens us to dim... - Mircea Eliade

"Beauty is an encounter with the sacred; it awakens us to dimensions beyond material reality."

Mircea Eliade Beauty

Historian of Religion Romanian 1907–1986

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