Ritual Quotes · Page 8

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I…

— Patricia J. Williams

“Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.”

— Dacha Avelin

Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

— Michael Kimmelman

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

— Ralph Fiennes

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

— Nouman Ali Khan

“I felt fresh and ready for anything. Well, except for maybe a sacrificial ritual, but no one was ever ready for that.”

— Deanna Chase

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

— Laozi

Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…

— Sam Harris

In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original…

— Walter Benjamin

“The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning…

— Håkan Nesser

If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such…

— Thomas Berry

Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily…

— Anthony Bourdain

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can…

— Terence McKenna

Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in…

— Warren Farrell

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained…

— Tish Harrison Warren

Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces…

— Dan Barker

If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the…

— Jaron Lanier

Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down…

— Richard Smoley

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians…

— Anita Rau Badami

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old…

— Waris Dirie

But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear.

— George Stephanopoulos

“this ritual requires you to take daily, incremental action to build your character.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“Witches do not need to fix problems. Witches fix the enegery AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves.”

— Dacha Avelin

I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when…

— Ariane Mnouchkine

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our…

— Jodie Foster

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is…

— Anonymous

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art.…

— Nan Goldin

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when…

— Ariane Mnouchkine

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

— Ray Bradbury

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

— Jonathan Kozol

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

— Kate Walsh

I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people…

— Miller Williams

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

— Erich Fromm

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

— Rita Mae Brown

Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

— Mary Anne Radmacher