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Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. — Jonathan Stroud

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

Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress. — Lois Kelly

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

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual. — Beverly Sills

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

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. — William Shakespeare

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

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

You get home okay or are you deep in the mountains recovering from a ceremonial male bonding ritual after killing a bear? — Kristen Ashley

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

find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault — David B. Currie

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

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best. — Gore Vidal

Ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order. — E. M. Broner

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

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander

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

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

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us. — Grete Waitz

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown

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

This is the prevalence of ritual. To remember something that cannot be forgotten. — Chris Abani

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

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community. — Aeschylus

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. — Clarice Lispector

Tantrics seek oneness with the universe
through eating meat, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, dancing,
and ritual sexual intercourse. — Marvin Harris

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

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

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J.L. Austin

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

Life is a ritual of love
Life is a ritual of union, and
Life is a dance of the divine — Vishwas Chavan

Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it. — Diana Gabaldon

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop. — Jared Diamond

Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution. — David I. Kertzer

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

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. — Shirley Jackson

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members. — Sherry Turkle

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R.D. Laing

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music. — Robin S. Sharma

The Ritual of Abundant Knowledge is all about becoming a student of life. — Robin S. Sharma

And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write. — James Renner

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little
set time, set gestures
was like a prayer. — Daniel Pennac

Second ritual. This is the Ritual of Physicality. — Robin S. Sharma

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity. — Gabriel Brunsdon

Ritual of Solitude works best when you practice it at the same time every day. — Robin S. Sharma

The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them. — Pat Conroy

Ritual of the Ashes," the Occitan prayer of the dead, which — Nina George

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies. — Noam Chomsky

First strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude. — Robin S. Sharma

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture. — Jeff VanderMeer

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

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

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ... — Ariel Durant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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