"The ritual process is essentially a transformative experience that moves participants from one state to another through a liminal phase." — Victor Turner

"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out." — Christina Baldwin

"Every man participates in the sacred because every man participates in the world. What the world says is sacred, is sacred." — Mircea Eliade

"Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses." — Ursula K. Le Guin