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" "And since a more convincing argument could not be found — aside from a fatal accident or suicide — this way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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Și prieteniile își au viața lor. Durează atât timp cât sunt necesare creșterii a doua suflete. Vine un timp când prietenia unui anumit om e o povara; nu-ți mai spune nimic și nu-i mai spui nimic. Osmoza dintre sufletele voastre s-a sfârșit.
Sunteți acum unul față de altul, două organisme complet închise. Trebuie să cauți alte organisme, alte suflete cărora să vă puteți deschide, pentru a primi sau a da bucurii, dureri, experiențe de tot felul.
O prietenie care durează o viață întreagă este, pentru mine, un miracol. Poate să fie o simplă obișnuință și atunci e tristă și neinteresantă. Dar poate să fie și o ”căsătorie spirituală”, un miracol propriu zis. Unirea sufletească s-a făcut, atunci, peste granițele omenescului.
Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reasoning. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality — the deepest aspects — which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfill a function, that of bringing to light the most hidden modalities of being..
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