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Modern man is torn between his distrust of the new and his distrust of the old. The reactionary and the radical are constantly at war.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
In other words, only by engaging in ritual could worshippers break free from the mortal sphere and picture themselves to be part of the immortal realm of holy truth. Because these ceremonies represented a link with the distant human past, as well as with an imagined timeless sacred prehistory, they were considered to be ways of transcending death itself: Sacred reversible circular time could replace profane irreversible linear time.
Time Journeys
Paul Halpern
The actual happening of things is characterized by flow, by something more perfect than consecutiveness—a sort of incessant flowering.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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