Mircea Eliade

To be religious is to participate in the eternal and the universal.

The sacred is a manifestation of the divine in the world.

Religious man lives in a world that is not limited to the natural world.

The sacred and the profane are not only opposites but also interdependent.

Rituals are the means by which the sacred is made present.

For the religious man, the cosmos is a sacred reality.

Religious man is not a stranger to the world, but he is not only a part of it; he is a part of another world.

Myth is the revelation of a sacred reality.

The sacred manifests itself through symbols.

The experience of the sacred is a fundamental aspect of human life.