Rituals
Rituals simplify many of the mundane tasks of our lives, making place for the things that interest us. Having routines allows us to be creative. Order frees up our minds for imagination. Patterns enable us to fill the spaces in between. Yet routines are only the humblest form of ritual, a basic shelter from the storms of life. Rites, by contrast, are the grand palace of rituals. They loom over the horizon of our lives and fill us with awe. There are rites for birth and death, for naming children and marrying couples. These mark the passing of the seasons and the cycles of growing, the sacraments of religion and the invocation of human values.
— Wayne Visser
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