Quotes About Rituals

Happy people do not wake up for breakfast.

Together we kill many chicken, eat cat every day, howl at moon, oh boy.

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meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in simple ceremonies and rituals, in curiosity, generosity, compassion, and service to others, in a decent independence and privacy, in all the free and inexpensive things out of which real families, real friends, and real communities are built

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

René Girard proposes that rituals of sacrifice are a necessary counter to endemic aggression and violence in society.

Eating The Bones by Ellen Bass The women in my family strip the succulent flesh from broiled chicken, scrape the drumstick clean; bite off the cartilage chew the gristle, crush the porous swellings at the ends of each slender baton. With strong molars they split the tibia, sucking out the dense marrow. They use up love, they swallow every dark grain, so at the end there's nothing left, a scant pile of splinters on the empty white plate.

I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.

SAMONIOS (Oct/Nov) "seed fall" (Samhain) DVMANN[OSIOS] (Nov/Dec) "dark month" RIVROS (Dec/Jan) "frost month" ANAGANTIO[S] (Jan/Feb) "stay at home" OGRONIOS (Feb/Mar) "ice month" CVTIOS (Mar/Apr) "shower of rain" also SONNOCINGOS "beginning of spring" "wind month" GIAMONIOS (Apr/May) "shoots month" (Beltaine)

the body of a wagon, to symbolize a whole wagon. Food and drink were usually placed in the graves. All this indicates that the realm of the dead was reached by a journey,

Christianity brought completely new rituals, beliefs and rules of conduct, such as baptism, church services, bell-ringing, burial in consecrated churchyards without grave-goods, a belief in one God (or the Trinity), very strict regulations about marriage between relatives, while exposing unwanted children, eating horseflesh and worshipping the old gods were prohibited.

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.

Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.

Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it's the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.

religion is more than a source of conflict or a calculated way to stay out of hell. Religions are treasure chests of stories, songs, rituals, and ways of life that have been handed down for millennia.

As I do, I'm reminded of textbook pictures I once saw, of ancient priests in the middle of their ceremonies, faces raised to the sun. They knew that was where the real power lay.

Ceremony-the wine of human existence" - Morris R. Cohen

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.

Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.