Quotes About Ritual

There's a reason we have a lot of pomp and ceremony around coronations and the transfer of power in democracies. It's a scary moment. The rules aren't clear.

I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionised my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced my life exponentially.

Tatcha is my favorite beauty brand. They were also founded in San Francisco. Their entire line is based off of geisha tradition and ritual. The line has transformed my skin.

Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us.

Remember, however, that your athame is a weapon of the "spiritual warrior" and tradition says you shouldn't work with a knife that has drawn blood.

Magick has been famously described, as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will

The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.

Burn a little incense, sacrifice a chicken or two, smoke a cigar, then shake your maracas and dance.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

Non poté fare altro, naturalmente, che incorniciare le sue frasi in quel modo vuoto e stantio di cui ormai era schiavo. Qualsiasi cosa si provi, nel cuore o nello stomaco, le vecchie abitudini restano radicate. Parole e gesti rispondono a leggi dittatoriali, senza fantasia; un rito spettrale, che nega lo spirito.

That was the purpose of habit, in my grandfather's view: to render memory unnecessary.

She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.

Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

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Hiiohoo ja tikkerperi, täällä haisee ihmisveri! Olkoon elävä tai vainaa, luunsa kohta soppaan lainaa!

Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.

Sacrifice is repeating the event that has saved the community from its own violence, which is killing a victim.

They placed the board between them on the kitchen table, and Becca took the suddenly inspired precaution of sprinkling the planchette with holy water taken from a bottle in the pantry placed next to the vanilla extract.

At night, returning from work, Anil would slip out of her sandals and stand in the shallow water, her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her. She would stand there for a while, then walk wet-footed to bed.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently sinful and carries sin and needs to be cleaned in order for it to be all right and all good with its creator, I just think that's an absurd notion.

The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.

Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.