“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.” PeopleIfsShouldMeanSelfEnjoyPrayerEmotionalPrayingEnlightenmentSatisfactionObviousValuableVanityRitualBeneficialIndulgenceStimulusObservanceSelf IndulgenceFixation Book:Seeker After Truth Source: Seeker After Truth
“The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.” HelpingCertainTermEmotionalArmySoldierCleverRitualEmotional IntelligenceComrade Author:Antony Beevor
“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.” SpiritualEmotionalExerciseActivityMajorsRationalIdeologyProseLogicalRitualAphorismMixturesAntipathyProse And Poetry Author:William C. Brown
“What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.” WayFeelsArtMadeInterestingEmotionEmotionalDrawsTheaterVisualsSubtleRitualVisual ArtInteresting Ways Author:Ragnar Kjartansson