Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion… — Robert D. McFadden Copy Share Image
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago.… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and… — Grace Hightower Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
