Alive Quote by Starhawk

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

— Starhawk

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

— Christina Baldwin

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

— R. D. Laing

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they…

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Miller Williams

“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“Rituals are routines that force us to move faithfully even when we no longer feel like being faithful. Until our heart has the time…

— Renita J. Weems

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

Rituals are magical.

— Andre Aciman