Ritual Quotes - Page 27

• It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

  E. M. Broner

  Home, Magic, Contention

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• My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

  Stephanie Mills

  Practice, Spirituality, Dramatic

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• Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Healing, Thinking, Medicine

  Smiley Blanton, Norman Vincent Peale (1955). “Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems”

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• I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

  Mark Morris

  Tvs, Meals, Watches

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Years, Hilarity, Language

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• Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Order, Support, Doe

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.78, Knopf

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• Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Essence

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• ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

  E. M. Broner

  Order, Certainty, Lulls

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• [Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Reality, Names, Vocabulary

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• When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

  Ellen Goodman

  Speech, Language, Divorced

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• If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

  June Singer

  Grace, Feminine, Masters

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• We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Mind, Illusion, Finding Peace

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (1924). “The Growth of the Law”, p.66, Yale University Press

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• 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

  Reflection, People, Serious

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Children, Holiday, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Drama, Imagination

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• The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

  Liam Neeson

  Wonderful, Never Change, Mass

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• Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

  Joan Jett

  New Year, Couple, Years

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• The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

  Mike Murdock

  Motivational, Secret, Routine

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 29, 2016

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• The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

  David Icke

  Sports, London Olympics, Symbolism

  "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.

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• You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Morning, Sunday, House

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• When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Sunday, Night

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• The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

  Kathleen Norris

  Mean, Saying Yes, Cost

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• I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Buying Things, Shopping

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