Quotes about Ceremony
Only within burns the fire I kindle. My heart the altar. My heart the altar.
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.
Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
Only within burns the fire I kindle. My heart the altar. My heart the altar.
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.
Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.