Quotes About Ritual

Where you'll work and for how long. You ritual needs to specify a location for your deep work efforts.

How you'll work once you start to work. Your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured.

How you'll support your work. Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth.

the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee, or make sure you have access to enough food of the right type to maintain energy, or integrate light exercise such as walking to help keep the mind clear.

Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For example, the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee,

To work deeply is a big deal and should not be an activity undertaken lightly. Surrounding such efforts with a complicated (and perhaps, to the outside world, quite strange) ritual accepts this reality—providing your mind with the structure and commitment it needs to slip into the state of focus where you can begin to create things that matter.

There's no one correct deep work ritual—the right fit depends on both the person and the type of project pursued.

Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For example, the ritual might specify that you start with a cup of good coffee, or make sure you have access to enough food of the right type to maintain energy, or integrate light exercise such as walking to help keep the mind clear.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

virtualized environments from Bill's team work as expected, we can go into production one week from Friday." I gape at Chris. He just made up an arbitrary date to go into production, with complete disregard for all the things we need to do before deployment. I have a sudden flashback. In the Marines, we had a ritual for

Raja-Yoga (the path of contemplation), Hatha-Yoga (the path of physical transformation), Jnana-Yoga (the path of knowledge), Karma-Yoga (the path of ego-free action), Bhakti-Yoga (the path of the heart), Mantra-Yoga (the path of mantric repetition), and Tantra-Yoga (the path of ritual).

it is the nature of religions to put a higher premium on your proper attention to ritual than on your convenience.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting

There is evidently a set song and sentiment for every dance, for the songs are perfectly measured, and sung in exact time with the beat of the drum; and always with an uniform and invariable set of sounds and expressions, which clearly indicate certain sentiments, which are expressed by the voice, though sometimes not given in any known language whatever.

You can't just murder the saint of Houston without some pomp and circumstance.

She remembered his voice, so calm it chilled her. "Lady Maud, if I die, say the Liturgy of the Fallen for me." Saying the Liturgy of the Fallen fell to the one you treasured most. Your spouse. Your lover. Your one who was everything. She couldn't dishonor that confession and she answered him in the language of vampires. "Go with the Goddess, my Lord. You won't be forgotten.

So much for 'tannis root'. Devil's Fungus.

A few people paused to look at him, but Londoners were by now so accustomed to 'weirdies' of all kinds that his ritual aroused little interest.

Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif.

Like most well-brought-up persons of twentieth-century America, the ritual of the private bathroom with the locked door was one of the pillars of existence.

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.

The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.

But what about the creatures whose flesh he's carrying there? A few days ago they were alive. They too have souls. They too are God's children. They were quite possibly made of better material than human beings. Since they were sinless, they were certainly more innocent. But day after day they are ritually sacrificed-angels in the shape of oxen, calves, sheep. I once wanted to become a vegetarian. I wanted everything-and I never got further than wanting.

Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. "Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born," Tété prayed aloud. "Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you," Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.