Ritual Quotes - Page 13

• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Fire, Safety, Soul

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

  Ashley Montagu

  Mutilation, Justification, Civilized Society

  "Mutilated Humanity" by Ashley Montagu, 1991.

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• I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

  Britney Spears

  Yoga

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• Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Mother, Emotional, Fire

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Agriculture

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• The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  A. Whitney Brown

  Thinking, Long, Water

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Teacher, Teaching, People

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• 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.

  Beverly Sills

  Funny, Running, Dog

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• Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

  Lexa Doig

  Cute, Suicide, Names

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• Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

  Scott Cunningham

  Mean, Energy, World

  Scott Cunningham (1988). “The Truth about Witchcraft Today”, p.10, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

  Jacques Vallee

  Culture, Stories, Voyages

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• I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Giving Up, Memories

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

  Ariel Durant

  Order, Knighthood, Chivalry

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• His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.

  J. G. Ballard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Self, Soul, Stressed

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• Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help the environment, I do it. Eventually, it just becomes second nature. If we all begin to learn from one another and share some of the things we do, we just might be able to affect the world for the better through these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness: doing the right thing without being told to or having to think why.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Thinking, Everyday, Environmental

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• If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Song, Religious

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• We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Practice, Religion, Doe

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• Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

  Frederick Seitz

  Religious, Technology, Land

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• One must observe the proper rites.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Rite

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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• Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

  Chuck Close

  Crazy, Knowing, Giving

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• What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Religious, Party, Believe

  Diary entry, October 16, 1928.

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• The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.

  Alice Bailey

  Lying, Home, School

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• What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

  Alexander McQueen

  African Tribes, Dresses, Looks

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