morning prayers
There’s something fascinating about how people cling to structure in ways they don’t always recognize. We create arbitrary rhythms and rely on rituals of religion, culture, routines, and even superstitions, from morning prayers to knocking on wood to avoid jinxes. Sometimes they’re product of ocd, anxiety, or something else altogether but these... See more
rish vee • your outie craves routine
RITUAL Our problem isn’t just that we are in the habit of shirking important ideas. We are also prone to forget them immediately even if we have in theory given them our assent. For this, humanity invented ritual. Ritual can be defined as the structured repetition of important concepts, made resonant through the help of formal pageantry and
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
To support our practice, we might set up a daily schedule, where we engage in particular rituals at specific times every day or week.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. That’s at the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deemed worthy of representing something bigger than ourselves. Some rituals are very private, some are very public. Some are so commonplace we don’t even
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