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)

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

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