Quotes About Ritual

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

Everyone knows that even the best exorcism has to be renewed once in a while.

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

If you want the truth, doctor, every day feels like a ritual punishment I have to endure before I'm allowed to die.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

We're guessing the bonjour ritual is expanding because it underlines equality—a principle the French value much more than either liberty or fraternity.

Esta danza recibe el nombre de «Alegría de los famas».

En verano nado de noche en las cisterna picoteada de estrellas, me lavo la cara primero con una mano, después con la otra, después con las dos juntas, y eso me produce una grandísima alegría.

E depois de fazer tudo o que fazem, os dois se levantam, tomam banho, passam talco, passam perfume, se penteiam, se vestem, e assim vão voltando progressivamente a ser o que não são.

In the Macomb household, cocktail hour was religion.

Mijn vader huilde nooit. Als hij bedroefd was, liep hij naar de tempel van de onbekende heilige. Daar knielde hij naast het graf, tikte zachtjes met een steentje tegen de grafsteen, praatte met de heilige en als hij zich weer beter voelde, wandelde hij terug naar huis.

There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation.

Tea began as medicine and grew into a beverage.

Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

to celebrate the Eucharist, 'the medicine of immortality'.*

One can make a habit of anything. If one is taught from a young age to pray, he will pray out of habit. Prayer is not done for the well-being of the god one prays to. It is done for the well-being of the one who prays. It is also done out of fear. The fear that if one does not pray, something will be taken away from him, or that he will be punished. Man has turned god into a genie and a warden.

He had breath in him once," he declared. "He is to be treated with respect, no matter the cost." "Now is not the time for empty ritual," Holmes thundered. "Now is precisely the time!" Douglas thundered back. "When we ourselves are empty, it is the ritual that turns us human again.

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious experience. I'm very careful with who gets to cut my hair.

So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

James is a traditional guy and wants us to marry in a traditional setting.

We used to play Jet before we go on stage.

Every year during Dhanteras, we buy jewellery either for me or my mom, from our jeweller. It's been a ritual which we have been following for years.

Every year I buy jewelry to wear on Navami.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.