Close Quote by Erving Goffman

Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon.…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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] 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

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 and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.”

— Del Suggs

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

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 border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology…

— Richard J. Borden

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

— Garth Stein

I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

— Carrie Brownstein

“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher…

— Samuel Sagan

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

— Miller Williams