The Art of Ritual Quotes

“A ritual provides an allegorical mirror in which the balance created in ceremony can reflect on our inner state.”
― Renee Beck, The Art of Ritual: Creating and Performing Ceremonies for Growth and Change

“The idea of a receptacle is an archetypal idea… It is the idea of the magic circle which is drawn round something that has to be prevented from escaping or protected against hostile influences…When the ground-plan for a city was set out, there used to be a ritual walk or ride round the circumferences in order to protect the place within… This structure of a circle within a square is called in Sanskrit a Mandala… The symbol of the Mandala has exactly this meaning of a holy place, a ‘tenemous’ to protect the centre…’

- C. G. Jung,
Analytical Psychology, Its Theory and Practice”
― Renee Beck, The Art of Ritual: Creating and Performing Ceremonies for Growth and Change