#ritual

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ↗

— William Greider

#cleansed #democracy #designed #finest #humiliation

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#come #growth #happening #i #i think

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. ↗

— John Hench

#anymore #bad #being #feeling #keep

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#clothing #food #more #shelter #spirituality

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#charged #emotionally #ever #fulfill #hatred

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#grounded #my own #own #reinforced #spiritual

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ↗

— Tina Turner

#american #church #did #go #had

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#books #center #find #hugely #i