As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.
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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.
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Birth: | 13th March, 1907 |
Death: | 22nd April, 1986 |
Nationality: | Romanian |
Profession: | Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Philosopher, Professor, Writer |
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and sky, has proved influential.
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