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«All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man»
Author: Bernard Berenson
| About:
Art,
Music,
Poetry,
Theater
| Keywords:
comprehensive, free man, humanize, humanized, humanizing, ritual, singly, theater, visible
«If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.»
Author: Dr. June Singer
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
androgyne, chi, feminine, masculine, performed, ritual, ritual dance, Tai
«Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.»
Author: Eric Zorn
| About:
Honesty,
Resolution
| Keywords:
assessment, cleansing, cycle, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, repentance, resolutions, ritual, Self assessment
«Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
cinema, contrast, dramatic, dramatic art, enact, enacted, enacting, every night, individually, ritual, singly, theatre, The Theatre, transport, transports
«Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.»
Author: Rennie Ellis
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accompanies, anointing, anoints, belonging, bloke, blokes, confirmation, confirmations, fluid, fluids, intercourse, lubricant, prime, ritual, sink, social intercourse, throat
«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
infinity, meditated, meditating, mysterious, ritual, seemed, solemnities, solemnity, transaction, transactions
«Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.»
«A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, blueprint, blueprints, commercial, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, occasion, provided with, ritual, social rights, specification, specifications, tone
«Creeds, ritual, religion and different theologies are all derived from man?s yearning for the vast Reality beyond - and flow in the thousand different forms, fertilizing many fields, calming many communities, refreshing tired people and, at last, carrying people to the ocean of Bliss.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bliss, calming, carrying, communities, creeds, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, Fields, flow, ocean, refreshes, refreshing, ritual, theologies, vast, yearning, yearnings
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