Quotes About Ritualism

I believe in rituals.

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

Ritualism at its best is but the shortlived after-summer of the spiritual year! very fascinating it may be, but when it cometh, be sure winter is at the doors. "We all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The best that can be said for ritualistic legalism is that it improves conduct. It does little, however, to alter character and nothing of itself to modify consciousness.

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. (Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)

Juju must hang clear of ground,' he said. M'Carthi gave an order, and three black bucks leaped to obey it. They tied a rope of woven vines around the juju and one of them shinned up the tree and passed the rope over a limb; the other two hoisted the juju

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

The major contradiction in Suzuki's position, one of which he was acutely aware, is that he negated in actual practice what he advocated in theory, namely, that Zen "is a direct method, for it refuses to resort to verbal explanation or logical analysis, or to ritualism" (Ibid. 3:318).

Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far as all of the things that you have to know and remember and the ritualism of it.

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

Los ritos y ceremonias son tan necesarios como las normas de buena educación y el respeto por las jerarquías.

Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all

bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me'.

It must always stand upright. The athame

But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.

Human sacrifice," the skull chirped brightly. "The slaughter of an innocent.

This makes me feel ritually unclean.

Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come.

When he repudiates rites, man reduces himself to an animal that copulates and eats.