These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious or anything, there's nothing I do over and over. I do pray before every game, but other than that… — Danny Green Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Baptism is, in fact, much more than a ritual conferring membership in a community, as many people conceive it nowadays. It is… — Peter Seewald Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it… No amount of rites, rituals,… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Will you relinquish your heart, your life, and your body into his care—into our care—to be transformed, remade, and reborn? This night,… — Tessa Dawn Copy Share Image
I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
“I hate organizations. Folks got to be free, able to breathe, and make up their own minds about stuff, not be fed… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“What is a ritual? When an enlightened person (Gnani Purush) is not around, when a leader of the path of Moksha (ultimate… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to… — Alma Luz Villanueva Copy Share Image
“In Druidry rather than performing 'spells' to bring about change, we focus on making changes in our life through study, meditation, therapy,… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
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