Quotes About Ritual

That night when I went to the bathroom I only pretended to brush my teeth, for I feared that I would somehow rinse the prayer out as well. I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and feel asleep with sugar on my tongue.

As soon as he comes home from the university the first thing he does is hang up his shirt and trousers, donning a pair of drawstring pajamas and a pullover if it's cold.

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

Do not always act out of religion

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.

Feasts and festivals are a feature of all major religions.

Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing.

Never underestimate the power of a good cup of coffee.

Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a price. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location. Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a black he-goat, in virgin's blood, with a brush made of dragon's eyelashes. The cartographer would go mad, and it would profane the hands that touched it.

I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it has a natural tendency to disengage itself from reality, to create a world of appearances, to become ritual... Increasingly, the virtuosity of the ritual becomes more important than the reality hidden behind it.

59. Saccharum Munja is a plant from whose fibres is twisted the sacred string which a Bráhman wears over one shoulder after he has been initiated by a rite which in some respects answers to confirmation. 60. A description of an AÅ›vamedha or

Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite

Afterwards RishyaÅ›ring said again to the King"I will perform another sacrificial act to secure thee a son."Then the son of Vibhá?dak, of subdued passions

It was as though she practiced some shameful art: black magic, voodoo, or poetry.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

quinceañera. Case closed." Carmen and Jamie exchanged

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.