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“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”

Ifs Book Values Deals Written Hundred Ceremony Rite Alterations

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.”

Men Needs Humans Made Religious Human Beings Communication Fellows Meetings Divinity One Man Sacraments Fellow Man Coercion Nonviolent Communication Rite

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.”

Firsts Two States Action Belief Religious Opinion Fundamentals Determined Categories Representation Rite

Book:Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

Source: Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

“Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly expressed in it is man's traditional mistrust of the man who is not part of his tribe, that 'other' who speaks a different language, whose skin is a different color, and who participates in mysterious rites and rituals.”

“Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.”

Book Christ Opinion Forever Atheism Positive Atheism Satan Sinner Candle Bells Scandal Rite

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.”

“O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.”

Men Law Wealth Fool Died Sacred Lust Dust Awake Cheat Rite Baseness

Author:Al-Maʿarri

“Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.”

Men Lasts Death Paid Funeral Last Day Rite

Author:Ovid

“That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.”

Love Night Marriage Drink Wine Finals Glasses Contemporary Attachment Delicate Tenderness Honorable Day And Night Refined Pouring Courtship Rite Nameless Bouquets Aroma Attentiveness

Author:Herman Melville

“Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.”

Ifs Knows Made Whole Today Lasts Lost Waiting Prove Calm Yesterday Lust Stealing Ingredients Salt Rite

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.”

Men Fate Holy Mountain Worship Hills Rite Predestined Hills And Mountains

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.”

Littles Doe Facts Eye Earth Christian Religion Church Dresses Admire Lifts Suspects Goddess Pope Ceremony Adoration Amazon Mute Rite Helmet Christian Church Heathen Worshippers Minerva

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.”

Performances Sacred Various Temples Vary Rite

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.”

World Mind Doe Stills Real Eye Form Spirit Simple Teach Path Doors Activity Yoga Breaths Supreme Fearless Perceive Bliss Enjoyment Midst Ceremony Guru Renounce Rite

Author:Kabir

“Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.”

Pay Tears Honor Celebrate Funeral Weeping Rite

Author:Quintus Ennius

“When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.”

Years Night Three Church Half Holy Lays Thirty Sickness Fourth Thirty Years Rite Thirty Years Old

Book:The Showings of Divine Love

Source: The Showings of Divine Love

“Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.”

Ends Feelings Emotion Communicate The End Of The Day Where You Are Passages Rite Rite Of Passage Where You Are In Life

Author:Ed O'Brien

“There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.”

Different Responsibility Rights Council Civics Legislators Rite Spelling

Author:Otis Moss III

“Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.”

Men World Trying Home Young Culture Lost Community Path Young Man Ritual Intensity Passages Ceremony Gang Rite Initiation Outer Worlds Rite Of Passage

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.”

Shows Earth Mother Belief Born Church Religious Our Lives Return Catholic Indigenous Mother Earth Baptists Evangelical Religious Belief Rite Methodists Bolivia

Author:Evo Morales

“It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.”

Travel Dedicated Secular Cathedrals Rite

Author:Robert Hughes

“Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.”

Way Art Certain Values Fields Oneness Lakes Regions Efficient Rite Diversion Terrain Nevermore

Book:The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Source: The Survival of the Bark Canoe

“As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.”

Ifs Ends Use Law Church Atheism Worship Institutions Positive Atheism Ceremony Approved Rite Worship God Magistrates

Book:A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction

Source: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction

“What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.”

Different Courses Levels Periods News Music Is Folks Entertainment Supposed To Be Bother Significance Village Passages Entertaining Rite Different Levels Folk Music Rite Of Passage

Author:Billy Corgan

“I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.”

Country Comfort Western Passages Testing Rite Recklessness Developed Country Rite Of Passage Testing Yourself

Author:Sean Penn

“Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.”

Two Rite Bigamy

Book:Definitions and toasts

Source: Definitions and toasts

“Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.”

Phones Focused Fantastic Passages Phone Calls Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Peter Morgan

“Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.”

People Art Soul Art Is Rite Initiation

Author:Julia Cameron

“It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.”

Voice Week Eternal Accidents Employment Greek Flames Acquire Awe Temples Banking Juniors Bankers Register Rite Withdrawal Deposits Bankers And Banks

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.”

People Real Age Earth Certain Actors Stuff Groups Delight Internals Touching Passages Adulthood Shaking Relish Demographics Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Ray Stevenson

“I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.”

Thinking Kids Language Term Interesting Internet Rite Texting Nexus Alarmists

Author:Bill Walsh

“Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.”

Thinking Kind Moments Form Grows Religious Memories Notion Psychedelic Rite Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.”

Ifs Thinking Real Whole Approach Institutions Priests Substitutes Ritual Offering Deities Rite Pipeline Scams

Author:Terence McKenna

“I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.”

Thinking World Feels Humans Persons Doe Hate Human Beings Periods Victim Surround Passages Single Person Rite Rite Of Passage Hate The World

Author:Shailene Woodley

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.”

Made Form Artist Three Cities Sea Tough Organization Accepted Corporations Thrown Belonging Survived Three Times Ceremony Medieval Rite Traders Initiation Chimneys Norway Guilds

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.”

Lying Sacred Confession Exaggeration Rite Allegory

Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel

Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel

“Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS and Wal-Mart have all figured out the evolution of life and they grabbed all the products that are necessary for a life. And they stuck them in one aisle and they put them in order according to how you mess up... First thing you're going to see: condoms. Next to that: lubricant. Next to that: pregnancy test. Next to that: Pampers. Next to that: formula. And at the end of the aisle they sell beer.”

Firsts Ends Order Next Products Evolution Tests Sells Aids Stuck Mess Beer Pregnancy Formulas Rite Aisle Condom Evolution Of Life Pregnancy Test

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause. . . shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause. . . the audience shouts and claps.) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.”

Want Said Two Body Jesus Audience Laughing Blood Broken Lovers Drink Wine Kingdoms Celebrate Communion Pauses Reminders Kingdom Of God Rite Ordinances Most Romantic Two Lovers

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”

People Lines Common Virtue Trouble Shame Guides Punishment Reform Rite

Book:Confucius: The Analects

Source: Confucius: The Analects

“Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.”

Source: Two modern essays on religion: A free man's worship

“We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.”

Knows Made Together Film Certain Values Names Process Fiction Plant Scripts Made It Translations Rite

Author:Ciro Guerra

“Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.”

Needs May Persons Moments Feelings Might Happens Beautiful Realizing Rivers Aids Breakup Fourth Our Relationship Lighting Rite Aisle Disregarded Toothbrushes

Author:Jay Duplass

“I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.”

Years Book Left Speak Numbers Boys Written New York Years Ago Passages Boston Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Nat Hentoff

“When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.”

Kind Courses Stars Sex Passages Movie Star Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Al Pacino

“[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets", etc.”

Knows Play Century Spring Sight Woods Opening Score Etc Composer Obscure 20th Century Violin Rite Duets Stravinsky Classical Composers Bartok

Author:Jon Gordon

“I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.”

Believe Happens Pain I Believe Sin Comfort Fruit Passages Agnostic Rite Banality Rite Of Passage

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“Do I address issues of the spirit, of the soul, in my work? Yes, definitely. As for being a Catholic poet, I was born in, and into, Catholicism - Eastern Rite Maronite and Melkite Catholicism. Not being Catholic has never been a choice for me - it's in my family, my ancestry, going back centuries. Catholicism, for me, is always here.”

Soul Spirit Choices Poet My Family Catholic Catholicism Eastern Rite

Author:Lawrence Joseph

“The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.”

Together Community Our Family Rite Family Together

Author:Alice Waters

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

Thinking World Writing States Novel Modern Statements Innocent Contentment Passages Perpetual Drunkenness Rite Good Humor Rite Of Passage Scanning Edginess

Author:J. G. Ballard

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