"Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories."

-- Miller Williams

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“We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.”
“God is God. His name doesn't matter.”
“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
“Staying busy keeps me away from being bored, which used to be a lot of my problem.”
“Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.”
“Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.”
“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.”

Source : "I Can Think of Life, and Nothing Else" by Cliff Walker, January 2002.
“Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.”

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