#ritual

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#civilization #economic #family #forgotten #know

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#explain #how #i #make #makes

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#either #end #image #life #live

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#darkness #enlightened #even #fall #fallen

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#demands #human #human race #learn #material

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#basis #our #progress #resource #society

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#candles #changes #lighting #mass #never

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#arts #because #belief #calling #continuity

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#cluttered #curious #get #going #i