Rituals Quotes

I was addicted to the original Star Trek" when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helen, Oregon and we weren`t allowed to watch a lot of TV. I don`t think we even had more than three channels, so it was basically watch "Dynasty" with my mom, watch "Star Trek" with my dad, or watch the mating rituals of beavers on OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting). So my brother and I watched "Star Trek."

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.

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.

I wonder what marriage does to a woman. I worry about role playing and loss of confidence and having to enact weird domestic rituals in order to be a good wife.

In other words, we must move beyond our own egocentric and vain rituals in order to discover the truly spiritual possibilities of life.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children`s bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

from picture-perfect rituals to those chaos-ridden family affairs.

A wedding is such a dramatic event in any person`s life that it`s the perfect fodder for the movies, ... from picture perfect rituals to those chaos-ridden family affairs.

On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take place