What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
“You have brought with you (in this life) the ritual actions. The Knowledge (Gnan) part has to be done. Pure ritual is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun… — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have… — Gabriele Amorth Copy Share Image
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
“Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I… — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Copy Share Image
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing. — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionised my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced my life exponentially. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Ceremonies are about groups agreeing on codes of behaviour and collectively committing to them... Community, responsibility and kindness usually top the list. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface… — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
