perspective change
basically joseph campbell taught me to ritualize almost everything i considered mundane. like my morning coffee, my afternoon walk and my bedtime reading. i learned over time this is because ritualizing ordinary moments makes them sacred. and when something becomes sacred, when you give it meaning, it gives meaning back to you.
Ashwin Sharmax.com
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
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan on trusting your instincts:
“The only thing you can do is trust your initial instincts. You just have to say, ‘This is what I’m making. This is what I’m doing. This is why I wrote this script. It is going to work. Just trust it.’”
“The only thing you can do is trust your initial instincts. You just have to say, ‘This is what I’m making. This is what I’m doing. This is why I wrote this script. It is going to work. Just trust it.’”
Shane Parrish • Effort Requires No Talent
Live Ritualistically — Bring sacred intention into ordinary acts. Infuse daily life with intention. Turning ordinary acts—like eating or walking—into sacred rituals that can ground you in the present moment.
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyz
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.