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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti
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
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
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
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
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
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
In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. — Tom Turner
Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — James Norwood Pratt
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
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
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
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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