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
…the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's… — Louise Brown 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
“Rituals are the architects of belonging. They take the ordinary and transform it into something meaningful. A morning cup of tea becomes… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath.… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In programs, there are conditions, which the programmer must follow. Otherwise, the code won’t run. Throwing dead animals is a condition. Some… — Misba Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do”… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you… — Anandmurti Gurumaa Copy Share Image
Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with… — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
To criticize one's country is to do it a service… Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your… — Anonymous 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
My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
