Quotes About Ritual

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

It's always tea-time.

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in the ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort.

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

Sometimes ritual quiets the racket. Try it. Any number of things may work for you – an altar, for instance, or votive candles, sage smudges, small animal sacrifices, especially now that the Supreme Court has legalised them. (I cut out the headline the day this news came out and taped it above the kitty's water dish.)

Discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

It was from Dionysus, the wine god, that the theater came.

I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

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The original Shiro-sama failed, of course, and was ordered by the emperor to commit ritual suicide in his temple in the mountains. He did, and his followers cremated his body and put his bones in a sacred urn to be guarded until the time he was reborn. And that's the Hayashi Urn? she said. A funeral jar? And I kept my cookies in it?