Rituals are ways human beings try to embed this understanding in our hearts and our minds. Baptism and Eucharist particularly. Water and bread and wine are very bodily things. A vision of God in this assembled body, in our bodies. Long years of ritual teach us to see God in all kinds of life, and that in turn helps us live all different kinds of life in godlike ways.
Rituals shape people.
Not in a magical instant, but over a lifetime. Unable to visualize the grandeur that surges all through lives and only takes a reasonable amount of practice to catch a glimpse of. I am lucky. I get to see so much of that practicing going on. And it's finally starting to dawn on me how it all comes together.