fire... rituals.

Rituals are terribly important.

Rituals were performed in churches.

I observed all the rituals.

So the rituals came that way.

We signal transitions of power with rituals.

There's really no ceremony, rituals, or rites.

We signal the passage of a life with rituals.

It was people who came with spells and rituals.

And I will share one of the rituals with you.

So no, I think that rituals are, by nature, irrational.

So the key is to choose the right rituals, the ones that are not harmful but rituals by themselves are not to be dismissed.

And they helped me understand that rituals are all about transformation.

But these localized rituals become pan Andean, and these fantastic festivals,

Because I learned that I was thinking, I was doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals, separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people

The prisoners went by a series of rituals to establish their new lowly status.

After finishing his bedtime rituals, he looked at me and he asked a question

And they said, We don't know, but it's just rituals that give us meaning.

Did we simply lose our beastly impulses for revenge, for violent rituals, for pure rage?

This comes across also in the way in which religions set up rituals around important feelings.

But as the Catholic church's influence grew in Europe, it frowned on the pagan rituals like Samhain.

So, I tried to work on the standard model of culture, which is, develop stories, symbols and rituals.

Dinner rituals have nothing to do with class or working women's busy lives, or any particular family structure.

It mimics perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices rituals of entry, rituals of exit, the schedules, the uniforms in this country, things that identify you, team building activities, team building that will allow you to basically be with a random group of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time.

Because the Kaaba and the rituals around it are relics from the earliest phase of Islam, that of prophet Muhammad.

And so, you have these grand rituals where great images of mother goddesses are built and worshiped for 10 days ...

Do not discount the criminals, regardless of whether a drug or religious rituals, or whatever, do not give up criminals.

It used to be the time where only kings wore a leopard skin, but now throughout rituals and ceremonies, traditional healers and ministers.

Masai warriors that spent time with us over a couple of days talking to us about their rituals and so on, wonderful stuff.

And if there was a big emphasis at the time to separate men from women, the rituals around the Kaaba could have been designed accordingly.

I wouldn't be doing my job because I have to actually be there for them and make sure that rituals happen, that practicalities are seen to.

Now suddenly we're a new form of Homo sapiens, and look at these fascinating cultures, and look at these curious rituals that everybody's doing around this technology.

Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality.

So, if anyone wants to join, the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God, there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness, and that our rituals can be sacred.

Our enormously productive economy... Demands that we make consumption our way of life. That we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction , our ego satisfaction in consumption.

I believe that whatever we did around that table at Bloodworth Street must be done around tables and rituals of faith until we become that family, that family together that understands the nature of our unity.

So these funerals are characterized by elaborate rituals that tie people in a system of reciprocal debt based on the amount of animals pigs, chickens and, most importantly, water buffalo that are sacrificed and distributed in the name of the deceased.

Believers, stand by your contracts (and obligations). Of all animals, cattle has been made lawful for you as food with certain exceptions. Hunting is not lawful for you during ihram (a part of the rituals during pilgrimage). God decrees as He wills.

And I began to sense something different about the history, and what had happened before, and the nature of life in a very poor village, and what you find as your joys, and your rituals, your traditions, your links with other families.

To every nation We have given certain sacrificial rituals. Let them consecrate their sacrificial animals with His Name. Your God is One God and you must submit yourselves to His will. (Muhammad), give the glad news (of God's mercy) to the devoted servants of God

Paul Ekman, the world's most renowned researcher on facial expressions, found that even members of the Fore tribe, who were completely disconnected from Western culture, and also known for their unusual cannibalism rituals, (Laughter) attributed smiles to descriptions of situations the same way you and I would.

So to take one example among many in Southern India there's a practice known as jholabhari, in which the pregnant woman, when she's seven or eight months pregnant, moves in with her mother and goes through a series of rituals and ceremonies, give birth and returns home to her nuclear family several months after the child is born.

And a lot of rituals involved killing, killing little animals, progressing along, so when I turned 13 and, I mean, it made sense, it was an agrarian community, somebody had to kill the animals, there was no Whole Foods you could go and get kangaroo steak at so when I turned 13, it was my turn now to kill a goat.

In (Bakka), there are many clear signs (evidence of the existence of God). Among them is the spot where Abraham stood. Whoever seeks refuge therein will be protected by the laws of amnesty. Those who have the means and ability have a duty to God to visit the House and perform the hajj (pilgrimage) rituals. The unbelievers should know that God is Independent of all creatures.

The months of the hajj (pilgrimage) season are well known. Whoever undertakes to complete the hajj rituals, must know that, after commencing the acts of Hajj, he is not allowed to have carnal relations or to lie or to swear by the Name of God. God knows all your good deeds. Supply yourselves for the journey. The best supply is piety. People of understanding have fear of Me.