Quotes About Ritual

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

Whenever ye have need of anything, once in the month, and better it be when the moon is full, then ye shall assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of Me who am Queen of all Witcheries . . . And as the sign that ye are truly free, Ye shall be naked in your rites, both men And women and ye shall dance, sing, feast, make music, and love, all in my praise. —The Charge of the Goddess

One of the greatest bores on earth is the Anti-Semite, and for him, at least, the show should be a liberal instruction. He will be disappointed to find no examples of those peculiar knives used in the ritual murders of young boys ...'.

If I were called inTo construct a religionI should make use of water.

When he gives lectures in the West, I heard the Dalai Lama say in Japan, the audience tunes out the minute he starts speaking about ritual and comes to life as soon as he speaks about philosophy; in Japan, the formula is reversed.

With a group of boys like him, all in white shirts, he arrived at the church of Divine Providence, where at nine Don Pizzuto gave him communion and at eleven the Bishop confirmed him.

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

Ils ne voient pas que l'interrogation rituelle sur le lieu et le moment de l'apparition du personnage de l'artiste (opposé à l'artisan) se ramène en fait à la question des conditions économiques et sociales de la constitution progressive d'un champ artistique capable de fonder la croyance dans les pouvoirs quasi magiques qui sont reconnus à l'artiste.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

On the road I don't shave until the evening before I go out on stage.

In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

I won't leave the house without having a shower and, as much as it makes me a terrible anti-conservationist, I often have two a day.

I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

I take a bath three times a day.

I have a very wonderful bath ritual.

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

I enjoy batting practice before the games.

I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

From somewhere, in college, Pip had gotten the idea—her mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by—that the height of civilization was to spend Sunday morning reading an actual paper copy of the Sunday New York Times at a café. This had become her weekly ritual, and, in truth