Quotes About Ritual

The woven belt once worn around the waist by both men and women symbolized the participation of individuals in society, their place in the community, and the agreement to be, quite literally, bound by its rules. When the reverse was practised, taking off one's belt signified a readiness to enter the realm of the spirits. For women, the power could be amplified by unbraiding their hair, as mentioned above.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..

He who brings kola brings life.

Its body was carved with men and pythons and little steps were cut on one side; without these the drummer could not climb to the top to beat it. When the Ikolo was beaten for war it was decorated with skulls won in past wars. But now it sang of peace.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

Shabbat dinner is something that we do once a month.

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

I love coffee because it's the ritual of my morning. I'm very much a morning person.

Sometimes we spend 20 minutes just watching Carol Vorderman brush her hair in the mornings.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. —RUMI

You can't undo baptism.

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

We don't smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith.

their Big Chief, Bo Dollis, would marshal them all together and they would start off down Dryades, with Chief Bo chanting one of the Indian songs accompanied by drums and tambourines, and the whole gang shouting back the antiphonal response.