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
Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh 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
“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
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it… No amount of rites, rituals,… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness 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
“Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases,… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
“The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me… — Jennifer Armentrout 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
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me,… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
“Hygge is a phenomenon that reflects our way of inhabiting the world. The routines that shape our days locate us - from… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for… — Marshall McLuhan 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 dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.” quote by Pat Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3db/pat-robertson-1972_acting_i-think-we-ought-to-close-halloween-down_2548849.jpg)
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