All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought.” — Mani S. Sivasubramanian 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
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J. L. Austin 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
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After… — Vaginal Davis Copy Share Image
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or… — Pankaj Mishra 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
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff 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
It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
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
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.” — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. — John Green Copy Share Image
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as… — Edgar Berman Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful,… — Johan Huizinga 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
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
