ritual
He likens ritual to the raft that takes you from one side of a river—one phase of life—to the other. “Ritual provides the exclamation points for our lives, more than it does the periods. Ritual is the wrapping that makes even the most outrageous ideals believable.”
Ada Calhoun • Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
Found on Cosmos
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Vervaeke clip on Tim Ferris: The church, the temple, and the mosque used to be places where an “ecology of practices” had a home. It was less about socializing, or communicating, but communing. People would mutually conform to set of rituals and words that would transform themselves, enhancing religio, sacredness, and an awareness of the depths of
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