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"A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual."
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Ritual"May the another (one part me) still stay repeating the news of the relatives and acquaintances fulfilling formalities of wellbeing embroiling in the phatic– where? what? how? participating in all of sixteen rituals and birthdays."
A ritual is a repeated, structured sequence of actions or behaviors that alters the internal or external state of an individual, group, or environment, regardless of conscious understanding, emotional context, or symbolic meaning. Traditionally associated with gestures, words, or revered objects, rituals also occur in non-human species, such as elephant mourning or corvid object-leaving. They may
"A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual."
"If theater is ritual, then dance is too... Its as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
"Leopards break in¬to the tem¬ple and drink all the sac¬ri¬fi¬cial ves¬sels dry; it keeps hap¬pen¬ing; in the end, it can be cal¬cu¬lat¬ed in ad¬vance and is in¬cor¬po¬rat¬ed in¬to the rit¬ual."
"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that its an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual."
"Dont confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself."