Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
“Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. Philosophical gold… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
