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Nourishment for the Soul: The Sacred Power of Ritual in Work and Life | Tiu de Haan

Work For Humans

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The Importance of Meaning in Rituals

The downside of over investing objects with meaning is that you then make it about the object and not about the thing that it was supposed to denote in the first place. So on one hand anything can be ritualized and turned into meaningful things including the objects on my altar which I put tons of meaning by because they're chosen by me to be in a place of power but equally all of this is a choice. Joseph Campbell said something really interesting about this. There's a quote where apparently he said if you want to make anything sacred you just draw a circle around it. He literally took his watch off put it on a piece of paper drew a physical circle around the watch and said there I've

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