144 Quotes About Ritual

What difference is there, after all, between the narrative we find in fiction and that which we find in the myths and legends that make up scriptures and Tantras? If a story works - if it conveys a truth, elicits an emotional response, tells us something we did not know before and allows us to own that something - then it has much the same function as a scriptural text. The first dramas were religious in nature; the first theatrical performances were rituals.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.(Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)

Dancing is more than the locomotive movement of the body because of a rhythm. The locomotion of the body is just an outward expression of something that is genuine, deep, and resonates with your core. A dancer feels every detail of the music, it's like there is something in you that responds to the sound in a way that only you can.Dancing is more than a ritual, it is the place of oneness; the body, the soul and the spirit in perfect synchronization.

Dancing should transcend hobby, it should be a ritual, a meeting point between mortals and immortals.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass. An altar boy walked right in front of us as we sat there. I began to shake, sweat, and become very uneasy. I felt frozen in my seat.

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.