Quotes About Ritual

Here was another peculiar Trump attribute: an inability to see his actions the way most others saw them. Or to fully appreciate how people expected him to behave. The notion of the presidency as an institutional and political concept, with an emphasis on ritual and propriety and semiotic messaging—statesmanship—was quite beyond him.

The putting to death of morality had, on the whole, become a sort of ritual sacrifice necessary for the reassertion of the dominant values of the group—centered for some decades now on competition, innovation, and energy, more than on fidelity and duty.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.

A soplidos le sacaba la fondera los ojos al fuego, sin dejar de repetir entre dientes: «Fuego y luego, luego y fuego». A

Me gusta esta costumbre de la rúbrica por lo inútil

Unless consumed in highly skilled ritual contexts, as is practiced in many traditional societies, what drugs in fact do is reduce our perception of both what can be accomplished and what we as individuals are able to accomplish, until the two are in balance. This

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

The cogitator was an old-fashioned affair, but Tekoa's invocation of the Litany of Activation, his burning of the sacred incense, and his administration of the ritual blow to its side, appeared to appease the machine-spirit, and it flickered into life readily enough.

Every year, she cleaned the graves of her siblings; her

Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

Watching a performance of warriors, I was told, "This fighter's tradition is six hundred years old." And I saw a performance so mired in ritual— As if nothing valid had happened in six hundred years. We must honor the classical without being irrelevant.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

Many French women (moi included) believe that the right day to cut is on a full moon.

As the French know well, ritual is how we give meaning to different aspects of being alive, including the most elemental: birth, marriage, death, and through it all, until the end, eating.

Unas eats their magic, swallows their spirits: Their big ones are for his morning meal, Their middle ones for his evening meal, Their little ones for his night meal, And the oldest males and females for his fuel Utterances 273·274 Antechamber, East WaU The kingfeeds on thegods

the mnemonic gEt as above. Then turn to the West Make the "Horus Fighting" gesture and vibrate ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ as in GAme Turn to the South Make the "Horus Fighting" gesture and vibrate IIIIIII as in fEEd Return to face the East Now bend over and reach out to the Earth vibrating OOOOOOO as in HOt Then gradually unfolding, come up and place your hands on your heart and vibrate YYYYYYY as in NEw Finally stretching up to the heavens

Dinnertime was a formal, nearly a sacred, hour – usually more like two hours. At half past seven they went upstairs to bathe and change into dinner jacket and teagown.

She crossed herself and started to pray in that loose, easy way Roman Catholics do: 'Holy Mary, pray for us now and in the hour of our death … Merciful Jesus

She was opening the window as high as the sash would go – that's one of their superstitions, something to do with letting the spirit go freely. They do it.

They shake their hair like the bacchantes who love to agitate their thyrsi.

Although rare, even to this day such are found in this community. Who do their wudu using the tears they shed during their predawn supplications.

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.

A court of rotting corpses to worship at the feet of the goddess of death.

sexual access to the woman is formalized through a public ceremony