Quotes About Ritual

Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit is a second nature.

Custom is almost a second nature.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.