“If you wanna pass on a ritual to your children, pass on the ritual of helping - if you wanna pass on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too… — Picabo Street Copy Share Image
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
“I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is… — Jacques Vallee 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
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
