Ritual is simply a myth enacted; by participating in a rite, you are participating directly in a myth.*
Joseph Campbell

Learning the skill and caring enough to implement it, again and again, can give us the foundation to see what others might miss.**
Seth Godin

A myth without ritual is
only a story, but when we add rites
it manifests in our ordinary world what we have discovered
in the special world of our explorations;^
These rites will be peculiar to us, our unique take on
and response to the world,
And living them consistently means we’ll find and
make our particular contribution.

*Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
**Seth Godin’s blog: In defense of the hard parts;
^As I see it, the time taken to discover and reflect upon our abilities, energies, and values is a special world activity. See more about a myth’s movement from the ordinary world to the special and the return to the ordinary in this short video.