Quotes About Ritual

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

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.

Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to their physical bodies. They see the funeral as a ritual for the living so they don't always attend.

Of mornings the body should rise early. First take the full setting-up exercises of the body, upper and lower, circling the body from hips up, bending from hips, stooping from hips, circling arms, head and neck. Then be rubbed down well over the spine, with very cold cloth (wet) and then rubbed until the body glows from the blood and circulation being brought to these portions. Do this each morning.

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

If every religious practice that was manadatory was voluntary, and every practice that was voluntary was mandatory, there would be no religions.

Go thou my incense upward from this hearth And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.

Give me that old-time religion,It's good enough for me.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

[Bottle feeding] also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body and in life.

Hoc est enim Corpus meum [For this is My Body].

Tea is liquid wisdom.

Forever: Time it takes to brew the first pot of coffee in the morning.

Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it.

Dis manibus sacrum [Sacred to the departed spirit(s)].

a hatch, match and dispatch Anglican,

Caesar was cremated on the spot.