I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader 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
“The life of a soldier seemed like a climb up a stairway without any stairs, only the wooden supporting spine of preagreed… — Cynthia Bass 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 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
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown 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
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves in Cafe Tacvba as representatives. When we go and make new material, we feel that our creations… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi 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
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach 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
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
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Hygge is part of the language of human action and interaction all over the world. To hygge is a universal impetus revealed… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
