#ritual
This architectural mode of enclosure and enfolding suggests sanctuary, retreat, and escape. From the narthex entry one is invited to lose oneself in this space that channels the pilgrim into a labyrinth of octagons and circles, inviting a wandering that seems to escape from the driven, goal-oriented ways we inhabit the “outside” world. The pilgrim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Byung-cChul Han interview
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
How do rituals work? – Ritual Design Toolkit
Anything can be a ritual, you just have to name it before it ends. This was a Ritual of Permission.
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
Monstrance
“Forms of rituals, such as manners, make possible both beautiful behaviour among humans and a beautiful, gentle treatment of things. In a ritual context, things are not consumed or used up but used. Thus, they can also become old”
“Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity”
“Symbolic
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To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.