Quotes about rituals

But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you’re supposed to do the rituals, you do them.

For me, writing is a journey, and the start of that journey is a well-worn ritual that I must observe for several days before I can even begin.

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable. Ceremonies transcend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm. These acts of reverence are powerfully pragmatic. These are ceremonies that magnify life.

The sunrise ceremony is our way of sending gratitude into the world, to recognize all that we are given and to offer our choicest thanks in return. Many Native peoples across the world, despite myriad cultural differences, have this in common—we are rooted in cultures of gratitude.

That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred.

What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, a ceremony that makes a home.

Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging—to a family, to a people, and to the land.

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do. (p. 77)