Advent Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from…

— Barbara Myerhoff

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the…

— Christina Baldwin

The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

— Joseph Campbell

Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors…

— Starhawk

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement,…

— Joseph Campbell

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

— Miller Williams

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

— Christina Baldwin

A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something…

— Elizabeth Berg

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

— Scott Cunningham

The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the…

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as…

— Margot Adler