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• Rituals are important.

  John Lennon

  Important

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

  Wayne Muller

  Fragrance, Again And Again, Our Lives

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.87, Bantam

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• The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

  Henry Miller

  Everyday, Citizens, Legal System

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• Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

  Starhawk

  Culture, Patterns, Crystals

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• Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Book, Psychics

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

  John Irving

  Loneliness, Comforting, Combat

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.296, Random House

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• Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day.

  Eben Pagan

  Mind, Firsts, Effects

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• The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Makeup, Hair, Lace

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.

  Starhawk

  Healing, Order, Land

  Starhawk (2013). “The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Poetry, Return

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• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Sad, Sympathy, Real

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 8, 1975.

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• Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.

  Chip Conley

  Communication, Email, Meals

  "What’s Your Daily Offering?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Drinking, Laughing

  "Maya Angelou: Best-Selling Poet Shares Story of Her Life and Work" by Brent Cunningham, www.buffalo.edu. April 30, 1998.

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• May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

  Jan Phillips

  Eye, Dark, Fire

  Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press

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• When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Greatness, Tea

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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Baptism, President, Use

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• The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

  Kate Green

  Preparation

  Kate Green (1985). “Shattered Moon”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

  Richard Leakey

  Self, Speak, Awareness

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• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  Xunzi

  Teacher, People, Principles

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• Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

  Jane Fonda

  Dog, Coffee, Doors

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

  Ramakrishna

  Fruit, God Love

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Mahendranath Gupta, p. 465, 1942.

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• I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

  Ariane Mnouchkine

  Inspirational, Hate, Theatre

  "Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre". Interview with Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

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