Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“the words are only part of the poetic formula: the rest is ritual, and the reason in THEM must contend with the… — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
“the dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.” — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields 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
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
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
“Individual customs and taboos do sometimes present particular problems - the Dennash, for example, have various rituals associated with passing faecal matter… — Tom Melly Copy Share Image
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too… — Picabo Street Copy Share Image
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life. — Carl Jung 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
I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. — Mel Ramos Copy Share Image
“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski 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
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the… — Megan Boone Copy Share Image
I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have… — Sam Rockwell 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
