“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've been doing this new ritual where the first thing I do in the morning is put a tablespoon of coconut oil… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we… — David P. Gardner Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche Copy Share Image
But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in… — John Ashbery 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
