When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cul… - Mircea Eliade

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When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cultural orientation and that of the historical moment to which one belongs.

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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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The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, among others, reconstituted and interpreted in Totem and Taboo. It would be impossible to ferret out a single example of slaying the father in primitive religions or mythologies. This myth was created by Freud. And what is more interesting: the intellectual élite accept it (is it because they understand it? Or because it is "true" for modern man?)

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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.

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