Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him.… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“In programs, there are conditions, which the programmer must follow. Otherwise, the code won’t run. Throwing dead animals is a condition. Some… — Misba Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Rituals, Al Decided, were a lot like numbers; they offered a comforting solidity in the otherwise chaotic floodtide of life. But it… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards.… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I… — Ozwald Boateng Copy Share Image
“What is more important than the meal? Doesn’t the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Placing a wedge of lime in the neck of a Corona bottle helps sell those beers. And where did that ritual come… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
“Individual customs and taboos do sometimes present particular problems - the Dennash, for example, have various rituals associated with passing faecal matter… — Tom Melly Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
![“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the…” quote by Peter Enns](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d4f/peter-enns-28232_church_the-lord-s-supper-teaches-that-rituals-a_787566.png)
