So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo 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
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance… — Dan Brown 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
“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface… — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong 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
“An experienced Witch takes magickal action based on inspiration, NOT desperation.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo 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
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery, these coarse,… — Vasily Grossman 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
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