Moving Up Ceremony Quotes & Sayings

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature. — Vincent Van Gogh

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods. — Julian Jaynes

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. — Walter Jon Williams

If only it were real. — Ally Condie

Accepting a religion may be more like enjoying a poem, or following the football. It might be a matter of immersion in a set of practices. Perhaps the practices have only an emotional point, or a social point. Perhaps religious rituals only serve necessary psychological and social ends. The rituals of birth, coming of age, or funerals do this. It is silly to ask whether a marriage ceremony is true or false. People do not go to a funeral service to hear something true, but to mourn, or to begin to stop mourning, or to meditate on departed life. It can be as inappropriate to ask whether what is said is true as to ask whether Keats's ode to a Grecian urn is true. The poem is successful or not in quite a different dimension, and so is Chartres cathedral, or a statue of the Buddha. They may be magnificent, and moving, and awe-inspiring, but not because they make statements that are true or false. — Simon Blackburn

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life. — J.D. Greear

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world. — Frederick Lenz

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad. — Dick Gregory

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony. — Michel De Montaigne

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me. — Kevin Eubanks

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire. — Richard Powers

I have begun to sense that living always in search of a new triumph or adventure, spending each morning run fantasizing about the moment when I'll accept the award or board the flight to Singapore or say Well, Terry, thanks so much for having me, means living in perpetual, haphazard evasion of the ordinary. — Sarah Menkedick