Crystals Quote by Starhawk

Rituals are magical.

— Andre Aciman

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

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

— 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

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

— Starhawk

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change…

— Elizabeth Janeway

It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into…

— Joseph Campbell

“The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy. Forms and conceptions that the mind and…

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Christina Baldwin

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst