Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. — Laozi Copy Share Image
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Ritual of Solitude works best when you practice it at the same time every day.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“An experienced Witch takes magickal action based on inspiration, NOT desperation.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
“The more people who take part in a ritual, the more justified it seems.” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. — Mel Ramos Copy Share Image
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred,… — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely,… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Let my idle chatter be the muttering of prayer, my every manual movement the execution of ritual gesture, my walking a ceremonial… — Adi Shankaracarya Copy Share Image
Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice'… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“The Ritual of Abundant Knowledge is all about becoming a student of life.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
