A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul -- As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't mind if I go to bed with other men. Or with other girls, as is sometimes my fancy. What has marriage...
Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family and loved ones are so afraid of death that even mentioning the word to terminal patients is taboo. We think the dying are obl...
An aphrodisiac will disappear, delusional, like permanence or wealth - a shimmering, as if love were a ghost - and yet my passion for you seethes and sears without an end. Late April leaves can’t crave caress of dew, sunlight’s sweet splash, more...
After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they starte...
Honor Lost Ambulant sunshine pierced the soot covered glass ~ the feeble man wandered by in this ritual morning pass ...
Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.
So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –
I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.
Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
