Ritual Quotes

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. - Alan Watts

Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Virgil

Young urbanites spend a lot of money--a lot more than they have. This generation is very, very materialistic compared to prior generations. It's not about spirituality and self-realization like the '60s. It's much more about having stuff as an expression of who you are as a person. - David Morse

Young people today are so starved for role models for people who live their lives according to spiritual values. The fact that they are lining up to see the Dalai Lama doesn't surprise me at all. - Howard Miller

You'll never grow mentally or spiritually hanging around small minded people... - Unknown

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people. - Archibald Rutledge

You need to take time to keep your own physical, mental, spiritual act together, or you are not going to be a good president or leader of anything. - Jim Bird

You need music, I dont know why.It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. - Jerry Garcia