Circumstances Quote by Susan Cain

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being…

— Michael Pollan

“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

“The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a…

— Håkan Nesser

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

— Tony Campolo

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

— Laozi

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

— Miller Williams

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

— R. D. Laing

“We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual…

— Desmond Tutu

“Modernity could be identified with the gradual disappearance of ritual , of those kind of communal bonds founded upon a symbolically shared sense of guilt.”

— Thomas Brockelman

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well…

— John Hench

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