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• To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Brotherhood, Together

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• Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Airports, Waiting

  "Neil Gaiman: Literary Rock Star and Me". Interview With Jeffrey Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2010.

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• This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Cuckoos, World

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

  John Barth

  Writing, Kind, States

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• I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Play, Romance, Interest

  Source: www.ftd.com

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Down And

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• Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rushing, Solitude, Teeth

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Book, Rebirth

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.31, Vintage Canada

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• I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Pain, Believe, May

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

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• The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Inability, Forget

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.16, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  Picabo Street

  Tired, Interesting, Focus

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• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

  Frank Herbert

  Suffering, Purpose, Empires

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.49, Penguin

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• I do love the idea of ritual.

  Sarah Silverman

  Ideas

  Interview with Pamela Paul, www.slate.com. November 10, 2005.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Wine, Mean

  "Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

  P. C. Cast

  Goodbye, Saying Hello, Wiccan

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.304, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Heaven, Religion

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Long, House

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Childhood, Community

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.9, Anchor

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• The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Father, Swim

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• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day.

  Twyla Tharp

  Order, People, Creative

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• Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Flower, Law

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• Rituals build brands.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Brands

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mom, Night

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• Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

  Bill Porter

  Time, Practice, Moments

  Bill Porter, Red Pine (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.11, Counterpoint Press

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

  Ronald Knox

  Long

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1958). “A Spiritual Aeneid”

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