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A regenerative practice: recognise which way you are facing, learn where the light is coming from and how you are oriented in relation to it. Not for monetary gain, not as a game, but as an act of planetary alignment. Solidarity with the cosmos, if you like. Which way are you facing now? At the shop checkout later, where is north? Don’t check a dev
... See more“We must get back into relation through daily ritual. We must begin again the ritual of dawn and noon and sunset. Of kindling fire and pouring water. For the truth is we’re perishing from the lack of fulfilment of our greater needs. We are cut off from the source of inward nourishment and renewal. Sources that flow eternally in the universe. Vitall
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Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time. They give us festive spaces, so to speak, spaces we can enter in celebration .
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
“Rituals stabilize life by structuring time.”
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.