Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.” — David I. Kertzer Copy Share Image
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling… — John Hench 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth.… — William Landay Copy Share Image
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago.… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
