Quotes About Ritual

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.

My mom and I, we have two movies that we watch every year. We watch 'The Family Stone' and we watch 'The Holiday' and that's kind of our thing. We may watch them twice. I always know it's Christmas when my mom and I are on the couch watching that.

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

Soon after five the Prince left the hall with Mr. Foot for possibly the strangest piece of ritual in the day.

First, sure, I drink in the mornings sometimes, but not because I need to. It's just a good change of pace. I'm celebrating a new day, and if you can't do that, then you might as well be laid out with your arms across your chest studying the pattern on your coffin lid.

Las Vegas] is the American Vatican for vice, requiring grand ritual and show for pilgrims dressed like six year olds.

4—Prepare "Titanium Tea" (this name was a joke, but it stuck) (2 to 3 minutes)

Try it—write down a precise sequence of curse words that takes 7 to 10 seconds to read. Then, before a creative work session of some type, read it quickly and loudly like you're casting a spell or about to go postal. Eric also finds late nights, around 3 a.m., to be ideal for deep creative work.

We are what we do repeatedly.

antes de dormir, yo tomo fosfatidilserina y N-acetil cisteína (o NAC

I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.

The second mode is shamanistic incantation.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.