Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling… — John Hench Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down… — Richard Smoley Copy Share Image
Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A… — H. A. Berlin Copy Share Image
There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it… — Rick Moranis 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
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 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
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated,… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up.… — Trey Burke Copy Share Image
