ritual

I was looking in my notebook for a particular quote. In the process, I stumbled across this one and thought it was worth sharing.

"Ritual calls us out of the ordinary into the extraordinary, it wakes us from the stupor of usual activities, imbuing them with meaning."

- from the book Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

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[Rose]

Since I've been in the "ritual" of "out of bed, make cup of tea, sit with tea while PC loads up" I've found myself in a much calmer space in the mornings.

I tried to do it with a candle, but candles don't get me out of bed the same way green tea does.

It's nothing mystical or elaborate - three things I used to do anyway... but doing them in this order at the same time each day... It's made a difference.

Maybe there's more to ritual than meets the eye :)