The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet,… — Caroline Myss 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
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“In programs, there are conditions, which the programmer must follow. Otherwise, the code won’t run. Throwing dead animals is a condition. Some… — Misba Copy Share Image
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After… — Vaginal Davis 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
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
“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
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
