Quotes About Ritual

He cut nine hairs out of the mole on her head for luck and went off happy

Songs were medicines long before herbs

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.

West-central Fife could use a spot of communion itself. It would drink the wine and pawn the chalice.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers. The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

El principal problema es que la mayoría de los comentaristas están acostumbrados a considerar a las escuelas espirituales como "sistemas", más o menos similares, y que dependen del dogma y el ritual: en especial de la repetición y la aplicación de presiones continuas y uniformes sobre sus seguidores. El camino sufi, excepto en formas degeneradas que no deben clasificarse como súficas, difiere totalmente de eso.

Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Una escuela sufi nace para florecer y desaparecer, no para dejar vestigios de un ritual mecánico o interesantes restos antropológicos.

Definición de un Sufi Para aprender, la gente debe abandonar mucho, y esto incluye el ritual como algo de lo cual imaginan que pueden aprender. Es para recalcar esto que Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, citado en Taarruf, de Kalabadhi, declara que el Sufi es "alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.

She thrust out her arms wide, in strange ritual of triumph, as Mimi Brissard had in Paris. She was a black, ominous death-cross against the starlight for a moment. Then she turned slowly, her eyes two green phosphorescent pools, toward where the helpless secret service man lay. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

We stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.

Cricket is the most repetitive enterprise in history.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three.

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.