Quotes About Ritual

When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.

Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.

Like you begin your day with a cup of coffee or tea. Some begin their relationships with love and trust.It's not merely a choice - it's a habit and a lifestyle.

empezó a comer sin decir el tradicional itadakimasu, que significa recibo estos alimentos con humilde gratitud. Es una forma de reconocer los esfuerzos que han hecho los granjeros y otros proveedores para que la comida llegue a la mesa.

Cuando yo debuté como maiko pesaba cuarenta kilos y mi quimono, veintidós. Tenía que sostenerme con todo el atuendo y de manera impecable sobre unas sandalias de madera de doce centímetros de altura. Un solo elemento fuera de lugar hubiera podido ocasionar una desgracia.

Colocar el abanico entre una y la maestra es un acto ritual, y significa que la alumna está dispuesta a dejar atrás el mundo cotidiano y a entrar en el ámbito de los conocimientos de la profesora. Al hacer una reverencia, declaramos que estamos preparadas para recibir lo que la maestra está a punto de inculcarnos.

Every ritual repetition of the cosmogony is preceded by a symbolic retrogression to chaos. In order to be created anew, the old world must first be annihilated.

The majority of initiatory ordeals more or less clearly imply a ritual death followed by resurrection or a new birth. The central moment of every initiation is represented by the ceremony symbolizing the death of the novice and his return to the fellowship of the living. But he returns to life a new man, assuming another mode of being. Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, ignorance, and the profane condition.

ÅŸi v?zui un zbârc roÅŸ, Voia sângele s? i-l beie, Zilele s? i le ieie, Nici sângele n-ai s? i-l bei, C? eu cu acul oi descânta Cu m?tura oi m?tura, În trestie l-oi b?ga, Åži-n Dun?re l-oi arunca Åži Sanda de-acum o r?mânea Curat?!...

life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony

On the other hand, fire itself was looked upon as the result (the progeny) of a sexual union: it was born as a result of the to-and-fro motion (compared to copulation) of a stick (representing the male organ), in a notch made in a piece of wood (female organ; cf. Rig Veda III.......)

Mircea Eliade

El hombre religioso siente la necesidad de sumergirse periódicamente en ese tiempo sagrado e indestructible. Para él, es el tiempo sagrado lo que hace posible el otro tiempo ordinario, la duración profana en la cual se desarrolla toda existencia humana.

The main function of myth is to determine the exemplar models of all ritual, and of all significant human acts.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3–7).

Sunday worship services are too frequently no more than a communal version of such energy-boosting, performance-enhancing, or get-well morning exercises.

Catholic ritual of Sancta Missa: " 'Come in haste to assist them, you saints of God. Come in haste to meet them, you angels of the Lord. Enfold in your arms these souls, and take your burden heavenward to the most high.

By this point—already a strapping young teenager—Eddie only nodded back. Unbeknownst to him, he had begun the ritual of semaphore with his father, forsaking words or physical affection. It was all to be done internally. You were just supposed to know it, that's all. Denial of affection. The damage done.

I wondered, now that his days were dwindling, how important ritual still was. "Vital," he said. But why? Deep inside, you know your convictions. "Mitch," he said, "faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Early on, to arouse a sense of belonging, of "community," the party began to emphasize the importance, above everything else, of ritual and propaganda—the flags, the insignia, the uniforms, the pageantry, the standard greetings, the declarations of loyalty, and the endless repetition of slogans. Nazism was a cult. The appeal was strictly to emotion.

every Friday, without fail, Saeed's father would drive home and collect his son and Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.

Saeed would pray with his father and the men, and prayer for him became about being a man, being one of the men, a ritual that connected him to adulthood and to the notion of being a particular sort of man, a gentleman, a gentle man, a man who stood for community and faith and kindness and decency, a man, in other words, like his father.

When the young Prince turned three, the court observed the ceremony of the donning of his first trousers.