Best Ritual Proverbs
445 Ritual quotes by 380 unique authors
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Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating…
— Richard Smoley
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Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic…
— Carl Jung
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A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more…
— Ralph Nader
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The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand…
— Edgar Berman
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I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying…
— Suzanne Vega
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When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is…
— Robert Fulghum
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the…
— William Robertson Smith
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and…
— Steven Pinker
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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a…
— Oliver Burkeman
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For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this…
— Roland Barthes
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Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
— Tom Robbins
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Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.
— Thomas Ligotti
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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
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I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey…
— Phil Cousineau
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When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've…
— Cesar Millan
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Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a…
— William Bridges
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The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend…
— Idries Shah
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I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written…
— Anthony Lane
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In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
— Tom Turner
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Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.
— James Norwood Pratt
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When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness…
— Joseph M. Marshall III
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The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and…
— Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is…
— Elif Safak
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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which…
— Ralph Ellison
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