Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious or anything, there's nothing I do over and over. I do pray before every game, but other than that… — Danny Green Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Baptism is, in fact, much more than a ritual conferring membership in a community, as many people conceive it nowadays. It is… — Peter Seewald Copy Share Image
Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“If the “Cartesian moment” is that moment when as Francis Barker has asserted the self can be conceived of without the body,… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler 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
Lord Raziel. Surely yoy would not have allowed such a thing as a ritual by wich you might be summoned to exist… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
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
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine… — Merrill C. Tenney Copy Share Image
The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Will you relinquish your heart, your life, and your body into his care—into our care—to be transformed, remade, and reborn? This night,… — Tessa Dawn Copy Share Image
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to… — Alma Luz Villanueva Copy Share Image
“What is a ritual? When an enlightened person (Gnani Purush) is not around, when a leader of the path of Moksha (ultimate… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I hate organizations. Folks got to be free, able to breathe, and make up their own minds about stuff, not be fed… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image