To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from… — Suleika Jaouad 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
I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs… — Darrell Wallace Jr Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists?… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa,… — Todd G. Buchholz Copy Share Image
Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over… — Karen D. Best Copy Share Image
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans. — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“An experienced Witch takes magickal action based on inspiration, NOT desperation.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
“Ritual of Solitude works best when you practice it at the same time every day.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image