Quotes About Ritual

Every morning at breakfast, or whenever you have consistent time together, cultivate a family practice of gratitude. It can be simple: "Today, I'm grateful the sun is out." "I'm grateful that I'm healthy." "I'm grateful that I get to see my best friend tonight." If you're not together, text with her about it, or do it on the phone. A reminder of what she has can help mitigate the longing for what she doesn't.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.

using drumming. Once found, the shaman would sing a magic song to hold the caribou in that place until the hunters could intercept them.

Although some common folk might enjoy a sip now and again, the major consumers of tea participated in a ritual activity which was prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of colonists.21

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.

I always eat the same thing on game day, or I read a book to calm myself.

I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.

I'm a Catholic.

I am a Catholic.

I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot.

I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference.

I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.

There's something to be said for doing things a certain way.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I'm not just sitting around anxious for the game.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

I make a huge batch of cinnamon buns on Christmas Eve and bake them off early Christmas morning.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.