Ritual & ceremony
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Ritual is the act of sanctifying action, even ordinary action, so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light, or because the candle represents the light I need.
—Christina Baldwin
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Ceremony marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine, the coffee to a prayer.
—Robin Wall Kimmerer
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The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.
—Linda Hogan
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Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten.
—Tony Campolo
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For Small Creatures Such as We
Ritual: Power, Healing & Community
Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change
Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
On memory, ritual, and survival
Integrating selves & systems through ritual
Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation
Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature
Shabe Yalda, a Persian celebration
Celebrating the longest night of the year
Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals
Wild Unknown Archetypes, Alchemy, Animal Spirit, Tarot
The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live