Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory.… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“If the “Cartesian moment” is that moment when as Francis Barker has asserted the self can be conceived of without the body,… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
A real stunner. Want to get swept up on a journey you will never forget and never quite escape? Open THE RITUAL… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“As the French know well, ritual is how we give meaning to different aspects of being alive, including the most elemental: birth,… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance… — Linn Thomas Copy Share Image
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
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