Ritual Quotes

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

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

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Rituals build brands.

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

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

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

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

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.

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.

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

That's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

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

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

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 people that bind.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

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

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.

One must observe the proper rites.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting is a kids' game.

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

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

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

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