You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred,… — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan 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
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
“Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater” which coheres us, but we, in modernity, are living in a… — Toko-pa Turner 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
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman 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
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them… — Barbara Myerhoff 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
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
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann 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
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans. — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
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