Quotes About Ritual

sacrifice and denial are not always one and the same. The word sacrifice means to make sacred. Life is sacred, and sacrifice is returning to life what life has given. A sacrifice might be something offered or relinquished. Something dies and becomes the ground of new life, and both the life and the death are sacred.

After all, I'd never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea.

don't you make pancakes?" It was a family custom to have pancakes

The God that Socrates presented to his disciples stood above and beyond the familiar myths and rituals. Socrates's God shares the same transcendent immortality as the soul and lies beyond all material space and time. He dwells naturally in the same afterlife as the Forms:

He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a variegated shadow which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed. He had shewn her that bodily rapture might be the ritual and expression of the ineffable mysteries, of the world beyond sense, that must be entered by the way of sense; and now she believed.

Split a young ash sapling a few feet down its trunk. At sunrise, pass the child through the cleft, three to nine times, against the sun. Then bind the tree and plaster the fissure with mud or clay. If the tree fares well, so will the child.

To tell the truth, they wake me every morning. And

A sword is like communion. It's appropriate to approach it with prepared body and soul.

Tea is instant wisdom — just add water!

Custom is second nature.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.

When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

During the day, I'm constantly reapplying hand cream. My grandma used to do it all the time, so maybe I got it from her.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.

I'm a creature of habit.