Quotes About Ritual

Now, by the altar, Over the victim Ripe for our ritual, Sing this enchantment: A song without music, A sword in the senses, A storm in the heart And a fire in the brain; A clamour of Furies To paralyse reason, A tune full of terror, A drought in the soul!

That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

An atheist may, of course, also feel clean after taking a bath and dirty without one, but the mikveh ritual, associating outer hygiene with the recovery of a particular kind of inner purity, like so many other symbolic practices promoted by religions, manages to use a physical activity to support a spiritual lesson.

The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.

A yajaman is a karta too; but all kartas are not yajamans.

Devdutt Pattanaik

The four couples took seven steps together in front of their elders. This made them lifelong companions who would share seven things: a house, fire, water, income, children, pleasure and conversation.

yagna, which involved exchange, giving in order to get,

Inklings followed a simple structure, and their opening ritual was always the same. When half a dozen members had arrived, Warren Lewis would produce a pot of very strong tea, the men would light their pipes, and C. S. Lewis would call out, "Well, has nobody got anything to read us?" Then "out would come a manuscript," and they would "settle down to sit in judgement upon it." The

what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

Just as variety was a boon to happiness, ritual was a great duller of pain,

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit of the congregation; but in the Lodge the ceremony is performed by the congregation for the benefit of one person.

In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

You want to wake the Old Gods, don't you?" "Yes." "Well then, go where the Old Gods are accustomed to be worshipped.

Ich dachte (...) an die beiden alten Männer, die einander rasierten, während die Welt sich weiter drehte, denn schließlich und endlich wird das Männerhaar trotz Friedensvertrag und Kampf um die Vormacht in Irland weiterwachsen.

Nous vîmes sortir du monastère une nonne. Elle portait sur l'épaule gauche une planche étroite et longue, la toaca, et dans sa main droite un maillet. Pour appeler au culte, elle fit le tour de l'église, en frappant avec le maillet sur la planche, tantôt au centre, tantôt vers les extrémités, de manière à produire des notes plus graves ou plus claires, et à moduler un véritable chant.

Los toros tienen la capacidad de producir belleza y fe en un mundo que ha abandonado sus raíces

women, in some parts of France, were barred from the chai, or winery, during harvesttime. Their presence, according to superstition, would turn the wine sour.

After picking, grapes were crushed with bare feet. The must, or grape juice, was then poured into giant vats, followed by a process called pigeage, in which naked workers plunged themselves into the frothy liquid. Holding tightly to chains that had been fastened to overhead beams, the workers would then raise and lower themselves over and over again, stirring the must with their entire bodies so as to aerate the mixture and enhance the fermentation.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.