“Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you… — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it,… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too… — Picabo Street Copy Share Image
“If you wanna pass on a ritual to your children, pass on the ritual of helping - if you wanna pass on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“Individual customs and taboos do sometimes present particular problems - the Dennash, for example, have various rituals associated with passing faecal matter… — Tom Melly Copy Share Image
I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained… — Tish Harrison Warren 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 had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
“A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo… — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
“Rituals, Al Decided, were a lot like numbers; they offered a comforting solidity in the otherwise chaotic floodtide of life. But it… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards.… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
