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Quote Left The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children. Quote Right
Quote Left A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. Quote Right
Quote Left The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. Quote Right
Quote Left Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. Quote Right
Quote Left Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. Quote Right
Quote Left Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Quote Right
Quote Left Drug addiction is no different from any other religion - sometimes the ritual is all that matters. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 replaces by vague ritual. Quote Right
Quote Left I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ...... Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things Quote Right
Quote Left In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males. Quote Right
Quote Left My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. Quote Right
Quote Left Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. Quote Right
Quote Left What was the necessity for the entire procedure of ritual slaughter? For the sake of self-discipline. It is far more appropriate for man not to eat meat; only if he has a strong desire for meat does the Torah permit it, and even this only after the trouble and inconvenience necessary to satisfy his desire. Perhaps because of the bother and annoyance of the whole procedure, he will be restrained from such a strong and uncontrollable desire for meat. Quote Right
Quote Left Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Quote Right
Quote Left Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. Quote Right
Quote Left Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. Quote Right
Quote Left We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. Quote Right
Quote Left Galatians 2:16: Know that a person is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified. (NIV)

Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God). [Ps. 143:2.](AMP)

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (KJV)

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Quote Left Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Quote Right
Quote Left Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. Quote Right
Quote Left Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. Quote Right
Quote Left Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. Quote Right
Quote Left It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. Quote Right

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Quote Left The one who wrote, Truth is self-evident, was correct...profoundly in touch with spiritual Truth. I have said this before, but I will say it again, if I have to convince myself, as to whether something is right or wrong, go though a litany of gymnastic thought -- it is probably wrong! Truth doesn't require knowledge...it does not require proving -- it is like God's presence -- we just know...and that fact is unshakable, regardless of the profound consequences. Quote Right
Quote Left Spirit alone can lift us. Let us pray, if not spiritual heroes, we have lived, at least, as honest spirits. And hopefully, that will have been enough. Quote Right
Quote Left Curiosity, pleasure, and pride, precursors of spiritual rebellion. Quote Right
Quote Left Why is the following analogy of wisdom important? Some will think inside the box. Some will think outside the box. Others will think inside the box, outside the box and as the box. Clearly, there is no box. WHY? You cannot contain knowledge in any vessel. If you do, it will stagnate and become useless. All the knowledge we know now can fit on a table. Outside this table is unknown knowledge of various forms, spiritual, emotional, mental, and so on. This knowledge is infinite. Quote Right
Quote Left Some who have suffered greatly in their lives, in retrospect, after spiritual evaluation, thank God for that opportunity to suffer. Sounds crazy I know. But true for some. Quote Right
Quote Left Spiritual liberation is a work forever in progress.... Quote Right
Quote Left " The Birth of Jesus from the Virgin is equivalent to the stage Srotapatti or Sohan ( He who has entered the stream ). This Initiation is the entrance of the Christ Soul into the Physical life intent upon living it Spiritually by Consecrating it to Noble and Worthy Ideals" Quote Right
Quote Left Yep, dangle shinning objects to get attention...to hypnotize into followers. Human dog whistles are, the promise of wealth, power, with no spiritual consequences. Quote Right
Quote Left PONDERING ON THE SCRIPTURES: A symbol of the soul relying upon the Higher Nature which is Within. " The words of The Christ should be considered further in connection with the General Character of the Gospel according to St. John" For the character of that narrative is not Historical, but Spiritual, not Descriptive of the outward forms of the church, but the Inner Life of the Soul Quote Right
Quote Left God created all from himself. Nothing exists outside of God. In fact, there is no outside. We can only separate ourselves consciously...but it is soul illusion, spiritual prestidigitation that only exists in the mind and heart, and not in truth-reality. Quote Right
Quote Left Observation is a tool for enlightenment and calmness the fuel for spirituality. Quote Right
Quote Left When I am talking spiritual talks, let no mediocre person takes it personal because of your canal minded spirit. Quote Right
Quote Left All nations, even those under severe rule, within those repressed spaces are many everyday people who have wonderful, spiritually correct, loving natures to offer humanity, but they are kept from doing so by tyrants and despots that hold high positions of power. Quote Right
Quote Left Completed PhD in spirituality "My mirror is my respectful breath of work" under Shani Maharaj guru. Quote Right
Quote Left Spirituality is walking in your path and religion is walking in packs. Quote Right
Quote Left The transitory is our physical. Constantly changing. The eternal is spirit. Behind all physical manifestation are spiritual archetypes. Spirit is the unchangeable, immortal~ basic substance. God's body is creation. One can willfully leave God, sinfully, imagine separation -- but not really. Don't be Devil deceived. God is also a body of law. Quote Right
Quote Left Paradox of Extremes If you have everything then you have nothing. If have nothing but love then you have everything. It matters not the collection of materialistic things, they don’t satisfy. Spiritual gathering of friends and loved ones will be your treasure. In this the moment of your life, it will become eternal. Quote Right
Quote Left Why would we want a heaven without loving consciousness to experience and recall friendships infinitely? Silly to think that God would allow us such fond thoughts, and not Himself cherish tender togetherness above all else. Wrong to think that such depth of bliss, such profound cohesiveness could spring out of random evolution unmediated -- Have no doubts. Heaven is our Live Feeling Eternal Companion, and not a random Spiritual Stranger, writer of previously unknown preference and vocabulary. Quote Right
Quote Left Faith is vitality for man's spiritual-heart, mind, and soul. One a day as a prophylactic, but excess will only do you better. Quote Right
Quote Left Some things are best left to professionals~ like God! He is my sole/soul Authority and Source when it comes to spiritual matters. Quote Right
Quote Left One must respect others if to truly respect one's self -- each of us is a physical extremity connected to God's greater spiritual body of all encompassing love. Quote Right
Quote Left Jesus went behind the enemy lines of empire with no physical armour, no sword, no army and defeated the might and power of the Roman Empire, and all empires, past, present and future. He did it by wisdom and insight, spiritual power, identity, love and a cross mixed with His resurrection, ascension and glorification. The Romans had no idea what happened. Nothing has changed much has it? Quote Right
Quote Left "With God's touch, the night opens up with wonders for our hearts to be fill with spiritual blessings." Quote Right
Quote Left We are made of God substance, the light of His Will our spiritual star and navigation. We travel from and back to God, but never separate of God, the only imagined dim of nurturing relationship, is man's conscious denial -- the anarchy of dark delusion. Quote Right
Quote Left God created the real, the wizard behind the screen, spiritual archetypes He created in six days -- if He says so, fine with me -- could have been six seconds -- He is God! Evolution is not the master, it is the reflection of what is and all that can be -- Infinite! Quote Right
Quote Left What impoverishes us in this epoch of great wonders is the ignorance of the masses that believe in optical illusions. True richness is the spiritual awareness which enriches us and makes us wise. Quote Right
Quote Left Only peace would save Mankind, if warmongers didn't make an allegiance with Satan; his plan is to destroy our relationship with the Eternal God and make us perish spiritually. Quote Right
Quote Left Being one's unique self even if one chooses consciousness and spirituality isn't a fashion show. Quote Right
Quote Left Guard your thoughts. Guard your feelings – they are spiritual substance with physical consequences. Quote Right
Quote Left Faith is the only hope that allows us to live until we will approach the day and the hour of our departure, having spent a stay so brief in time, and this faith is instilled by a spiritual urge that will open the gate of Paradise for us all firm believers in the resurrection. Quote Right
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