We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface… — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely,… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman 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
Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that… — Florence King Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For… — Cal Newport 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
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“We use rituals in our Moon Circle in order to set the evening apart as a sacred space. We use it to… — Lucy Aitkenread Copy Share Image
“For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam,… — Johan Huizinga 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
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like… — Devdutt Pattanaik 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
The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship… — Richard Conniff 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
