Ordeal by Labyrinth Quotes

“The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“The 'terror of history,' for me, is the feeling experienced by a man who is no longer religious, who therefore has no hope of finding any ultimate meaning in the drama of history, and who must undergo the crimes of history without grasping the meaning of them.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“It is beyond doubt that this gray reality, this everyday life of ours, is a camouflage for something else.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“To be human is to seek for meaning…”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“One becomes oneself when one learns one's history.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“For me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real, an encounter with that which saves us by giving meaning to our existence.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“The sacred does not necessarily imply belief in God or gods or spirits … it is the experience of a reality and the source of an awareness of existing in the world.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“Experience of the sacred is inherent in man’s mode of being in the world.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“Creation is the only answer one can give to fate, to the ‘terror of history.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

“Every homeland constitutes a sacred geography. For those who have left it, the city of their childhood and adolescence always becomes a mythical city.”
― Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet