"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

Ritual, Learning, Curiosity, Tradition

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"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

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"That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Ritual, Religion, Redemption, Community, Forgiveness

"Ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one stage of our lives into the next, making sure we don't stumble or lose ourselves along the way. Ceremony and ritual march us carefully right through the center of our deepest fears about change."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Ritual, Ceremony, Life, Change, Fear

"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Ritual, Peace, Time, Rest, Tradition

"The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken."

John Updike, American Novelist

Ritual, Voice, Meaning, Death

"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Ritual, Decay, Tradition, Forgetting

"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Ritual, Learning, Curiosity, Tradition

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"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."

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"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"

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"He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations."

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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

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"That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community."

"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."

"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."

"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."

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"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."

"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."

"To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?"

"You can force the people to obey, you cannot force them to understand."

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."

"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."

"He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."