Quotes About Ritual

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

A person who is to receive the Most Holy Eucharist is to abstain for at least one hour before Holy Communion from any food and drink, except for only water and medicine [CIC 919 §1]. As this canon reveals, the eucharistic fast is currently reckoned from the time of Communion, not the time that Mass begins. One may take food within one hour of Mass, so long as one does not take it within one hour

I get up slowly, quietly, and creep to the bathroom. I turn the water on full and step in without waiting for the hot to kick in. The tub is cold against my skin. I reach for the soap and a washcloth and rub myself all over. Hard. I scrub and scrub until the water warms up and rises over my ankles, my shins, my knees. I scrub until my skin feels raw and the water is so hot it stings against my skin.

The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!

Every now and then, though, it feels like we're trying to rekindle our neglected friendships with an old ritual that's lost its sparkle.

Philibert prenait toujours du chocolat au petit déjeuner et son plaisir, c'était d'éteindre le gaz juste avant que le lait déborde. Plus qu'un rite ou une manie, c'était sa petite vistoire quotidienne. Son exploit, son invisible triomphe. Le lait retombait et la journée pouvait commencer : il maîtrisait la situation.

Being an atheist had never stopped me from enjoying the ritual, community singing, gay friendly and general do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them-do-unto-you sentiment of the school's chapel services, plus, the school had amazing camping trips. A camping trip that includes margaritas? What's not to like?

It is surely ironic to fuss over how fresh the fish being fed to him are and how "authentic" his tank vegetation is when he is isolated, held captive, and put on display. The ritual of care disguises the violence, just like the preparation of sushi itself.

Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.

I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—

A britek, jövök rá, csak akkor temetnek el valakit, amikor már annyira halott, hogy más szót kell rá használni. A britek addig várnak a temetéssel, hogy a rokonok nem is gyászolni gy?lnek össze, hanem panaszkodni, hogy még mindig ott van a tetem.

And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband's arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

I do a death dance, I lay a snake skin…

Après le rasage, mon oncle a tiré le corps, l'a tenu levé pour qu'on lui enlève la chemise qu'il portait ces derniers jours et la remplacer par une propre. La tête retombait en avant, sur la poitrine nue couverte de marbrures. Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai vu le sexe de mon père. Ma mère l'a dissimulé rapidement avec les pans de la chemise propre, en riant un peu : « Cache ta misère, mon pauvre homme.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny.