Every genuine religious experience involves a confrontation ... - Mircea Eliade

"Every genuine religious experience involves a confrontation with the absolute."

Mircea Eliade Faith

Historian of Religion Romanian 1907–1986

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"Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacralizes himself and the world"

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"Myths are real because they are efficacious"

"Faith guides me through difficult times."

"Faith is believing when you can't see."

"You have to believe in something, or you'll fall for anything."

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