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In challenging times, we crave grounded-ness and connection but find ourselves rushing through our days or frozen with anxiety. Respected spiritual teacher Tracee Stanley says the answer to inhabiting our lives more fully is ritual. In Living Ritual, Stanley reorients our attention to what we do, how we do it, and why to deepen our relationship with ourselves and commit to living purposefully. Created specifically for householders—people who have daily roles and responsibilities and can’t devote hours each day to spiritual practice—this book doesn’t require you to take a retreat from your life but instead encourages you to find moments of meaning in your daily living.
“Ritual is about the Truth that life isn’t perfect,” explains Stanley. “Honoring ourselves in every season and sitting at the altar of life through every cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is important.” Through this book, Stanley helps us discover and create rituals, including short micro-rituals that can carry us through our days, creating space for sacred habits that infuse the ordinary with meaning and purpose.
Inspired by Hindu philosophy of the four aims of life, Living Ritual is divided into four parts: Rituals of Support, Relationships, Purpose, and Spirit. With each section, Stanley creates a bridge between the mundane and the sacred, allowing our daily actions to be filled with presence and intention.