Best sacred & ritual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.”

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Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“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.”

Firsts Certain Dark Taken Achieve Sacred Unions Candidates Ritual Beaten Midnight Guru Intercourse Cemetery Hashish

Book:Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other.”

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Author:Alma Luz Villanueva

“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.”

“Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.”

Way Dignity Sacred Lifetime Ritual Sparks

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.”

“Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.”

Needs I Can Helping Light Action Spirituality Practice Our Lives Ordinary Sacred Ritual Candle Closeness Receptive

Author:Christina Baldwin

“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”

“Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.”

Desire Space Secret Fans Catholic Sacred Pops Devotion Ritual Agony Ceremony Splendid Icons Sacred Space Secret Desire

Book:Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”

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Author:A. J. Jacobs

“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.”

“Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.”

Long Social Food Cold Sacred Cooking Beer Culinary Belonging Prime Ritual Throat Fluid Intercourse Accompany Confirmation Blokes Anointing Brewing Beer Cold Beer

Author:Rennie Ellis

“Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.”

Lasts Football Sacred Our Time Ritual

Author:Pier Paolo Pasolini

“If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. I would not want to hurt their feelings. They have secrets which to them are sacred. They have good reason for their secrecy.”

Ifs Thinking Want Reason Feelings Would Be Easy Hurt Secret Prove My Friends Sacred Ritual Witch Secrecy Solemn Oath

Author:Gerald Gardner

“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.”

Doe Play Spirit Culture Social Born Grew Civilization Pure Grew Up Sacred Competition Dancing Arise Impulse Ritual Phases

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”

Life Giving Firsts Art Soul Water Tree Land Sacred Ancient Branches Ritual Goddess Egypt Peasants Sustenance Ancient Egypt Deceased Memphis Epithet Dead Trees Ancient Art

Author:Larry Gates

“Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.”

“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.”

Wells Use Church Walks Journey Dog Walking Bases Sacred Simplicity Neighbor Scales Wander Well Being Intimate Latin Ritual Hiking Rebirth Renewal Revival Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Robert Fulghum

“In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.”

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Book:Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)

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