“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human
beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated
feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings
around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of
ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition
doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are
absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing
your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself
resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert,
Tuesday 15 April 2014
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