#ritual
“What is a ritual?” said the little prince. “It is also something really forgotten,” said the fox. “It is what makes one day different from the other days, one hour, from the other hours.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
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 .
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
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
Rituals provide a nameable container for managing transformation and making meaning.
How do rituals work? – Ritual Design Toolkit
We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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 .
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Byung-cChul Han interview
I can honestly say, the two examples that I’ve experienced that seem to bring together oneness within their respective community that go beyond any social construct such as gender, race, socioeconomic status etc in their own weird and wonderful ways are raving and football. If you’ve experienced both, perhaps you’ll know what I mean. I think it’s... See more
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