“Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.” — Neil Gaiman 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
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can… — Matt Smith 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
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 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
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 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
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
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.” — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.” — Tom Boellstorff 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
I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. — Mel Ramos 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
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just… — Andre Aciman 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
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel 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
British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the… — Megan Boone Copy Share Image
