It is a sign of sovereignty to risk one's life, that is, to turn life into a game. - Byung-Chul Han

We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transforming being at home to being in the world. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space. They render time habitable.

Every religious practice is an exercise in attention. A temple is the highest degree of attention.

Power is more 'spacious' than violence. And violence becomes power if it 'gives itself more time.' Looked at from this perspective, power rests on an excess of space and time.