Rituals

"Religious rituals often develop out of mystical experimentation. Some brave scout goes looking for a new path to the divine, has a transcendent experience and returns home a prophet. He or she brings back to the community tales of heaven and maps of how to get there.

Then others repeat the words, the works, the prayers, or the acts of this prophet, in order to cross over, too. Sometimes this is successful--sometimes the same familiar combination of syllables and devotional practices repeated generation after generation might carry many people to the other side. Sometimes it doesn't work, though. Inevitable even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody." -- Excerpt from 'Eat, Pray, Love'

The canvas is wide open. What rituals would God have us paint week in and week out...and how can we prevent these from becoming stale and without purpose?