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I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.
Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better.
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
I need rituals that encourage me to embrace what is repetitive, ancient, and quiet. But what I crave is novelty and stimulation.
Sacred actions: gratitude, praying, dancing, hugging, singing, writing, painting, drawing, gardening, jogging, reading, knitting and many more!
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.
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.
The function of ritual ... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.
Religion is a set of rituals.
Seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.
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
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything.
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.
Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.
Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.
Rituals, Al Decided, were a lot like numbers; they offered a comforting solidity in the otherwise chaotic floodtide of life. But it was more than that. A ritual was a way to hold time - not freezing it, rather the opposite, warming it through the touch of your imagination.
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.
In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
Dance with your sacred rhythm.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh ... And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.
Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.
To offer up spiritual sacrifices
When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
Quietly ... softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.
final ritual?" "This is the all-important Ritual of Simplicity.
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
Ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them.
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
This ritual was straight out of the 1965 movie Shenandoah: "We thank you, Lord, for this food. We cleared the land. We tended the herd and planted the corn, cared for it, and harvested it. Then my wife prepared the meal, and we thank you for the opportunity
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance. How
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
On the Sivaratri day after performing the routine, the devotee shall go to the temple of Siva and perform worship.
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.
Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath.
Purify thy sacred soul.
An ancient custom obtains force of nature.
Catholic ritual of Sancta Missa: " 'Come in haste to assist them, you saints of God. Come in haste to meet them, you angels of the Lord. Enfold in your arms these souls, and take your burden heavenward to the most high.
I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going.
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.
Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.
I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
I pray, and I obey.
Be fully present in the sacred-moment.
Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!
You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chickens or lambs waiting for eagles.
When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit.
anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space.
ascetic practices.
Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
Make your body your sacred dweller.
I bow my knees and pray to God.
Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.
Prayer, speaking to the Creator.
I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, couting prayer beads no more scared than simply breathing, religious robed no more spiritual than work clothes.
Now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. The victim of habit, when he has