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With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork. — Christopher Hitchens

The dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired. — Dorothy Bryant

The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word. — Robin S. Sharma

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process — Meister Eckhart

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier. — J.M. Coetzee

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. — Deepak Chopra

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. — Gina Gershon

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. — Anne Lamott

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Phillip Adams

Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas. — Dacha Avelin

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual. — Kate Walsh

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual. — Erich Fromm

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally. — Dan Jones

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. — Rita Mae Brown

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey Jr.

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual. — Sarah Addison Allen

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite. — Algernon Blackwood

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews

One must observe the proper rites. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality. — Roland Allen

When I arrived, he was in the kitchen, in the middle of his Sunday morning ritual of cleaning his cleaning supplies. — Lee Goldberg

The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason. — Angela Carter

Prayer is a path where there is none. — Noah Benshea

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. — Richard Dean Anderson

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic. — E. M. Broner

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination. — Eliphas Levi

Religion is more than rite and ritual. — Yann Martel

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. — Mary Karr

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens. — Reza Aslan

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society. — Dominick Dunne

Tsze-kung asked, "What do you think of me?" The Master said, "You are a pot." "What sort of pot?" "A precious ritual vase. — Confucius

I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive! — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. — Peter Redgrove

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on. — Darrell Wallace Jr.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong

Second-guessing a Red Sox manager is like bemoaning Cape Cod traffic - it's a time-honored summer ritual. — Anonymous

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual ... — Evelyn Underhill

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. — Idries Shah

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin

If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago. — Diane Samuels

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant. — George R R Martin

Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten. — Dacha Avelin

anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space. — Elaine N. Aron

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister. — Alexei Navalny

He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust. — Josephin Peladan

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. — Lexa Doig

A Prayer does not need to become a ritual. — Sunday Adelaja

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga — Britney Spears

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. — Richard Leakey

Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep. — Karen Marie Moning

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — James Norwood Pratt

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot. — Rose Leslie

Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship. — Augusten Burroughs

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. — Ramakrishna

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country. — Mary Ellen Mark

It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon. — Karen Chance

Design is a human ritual of understanding. — Maggie Macnab

Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief. — V.S. Naipaul

Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect. — Del Suggs

Spellwork is a form of creation. Manifesting the invisible and the imaginable into real life verifiable forms, through perfectly natural means. — Dacha Avelin

She found herself stepping into ritual as if into a pair of stone shoes. — Margaret Atwood

Fourth ritual is known as the Ritual of Abundant Knowledge. — Robin S. Sharma

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. — Terry Tempest Williams

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. — Neil Gaiman

[L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts. — Steve Hagen

I do love the idea of ritual. — Sarah Silverman

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony. — Laozi

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. — Madame De Stael

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington

How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times! — Catherynne M Valente

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma. — Charles F. Glassman

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling. — John Travolta

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind. — Eileen Wilks

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual ... It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews

In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental. — Kim Stanley Robinson

My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. — Iman

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. — Michael Pollan

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. — Bauvard

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak. — Anne Lamott

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol

It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me. — Hideo Kojima

We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual. — Maggie Nelson

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual. — Rashid Johnson

The function of ritual ... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. — Joseph Campbell

Eating together is an occasion that humans have made into a peacemaking ritual; — Paul Theroux

Nothing works faster to make that happen than creating a sense of ritual and intention. — Maggie Huffman

Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else. — Dana Gould

Every spoken sentence beginning with 'I Am' is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely. — Dacha Avelin

I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. — Mel Ramos

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible. — Ahmet Zappa