Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai… - Mircea Eliade

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Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai fiinta omeneasca, ci intreg Cosmosul. Ghicesc in acest simbolism solidaritatea omului cu Firea intreaga; intreaga viata cosmica sufera si se ofileste prin nepasarea omului fata de problemele centrale. Uitand sa ne punem intrebarea justa, pierzandu-ne timpul cu futilitati sau intrebari frivole, ne omoram nu numai pe noi, ci omoram prin moarte lenta si sterilizare o particica din Cosmos. As putea merge si mai departe. As putea presupune ca oamenii continua sa traiasca sanatosi si Cosmosul isi continua ritmurile datorita exclusiv intrebarilor pe care si le pun acei cativa alesi care, asemenea lui Parsifal, patimesc pentru lenea noastra spirituala. Poate ca am deveni, peste noapte, sterpi si bolnavi daca n-ar exista, in fiecare tara si in fiecare moment istoric, anumiti oameni hotarati si luminati, care sa-si puna intrebarea justa... Si n-ar fi deloc exclus ca haosul si catastrofa in care ne pregatim sa intram si noi sa se datoreze, in ultima instanta, disparitiei acestor oameni hotarati si luminati, sau faptului ca nimeni nu se mai indreapta spre ei ca sa le puna, din nou, intrebarea justa...

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About Mircea Eliade

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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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 reason. 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 fulfil a function, that of bringing to light the hidden modalities of being.

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"It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection."

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