“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives and deaths to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
“Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
“Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
The Confucians paid a great deal attention to ritual, highlighting the ones that expressed the sorts of affective attitudes one wants to… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional -… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights,… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
