Quotes About Initiate

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1.

Make a thing where there was none, kids. It's crazy what it can lead to.

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

But all we need to do is begin. The rest will take care of itself. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Just begin, believe me, and you will see the truth of what I've been saying.

A well begun is half ended.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.

Was that a sly smile of the initiate, or a dumb smile of bluffing?

So Franni and I teamed up with Mike and Diana Enzi to start a tradition of throwing pizza parties and ice-cream socials for these kids. Pages are generally not allowed to initiate conversations with senators, so Mike and I give them an opportunity to ask us questions like, "Is being a senator as much fun as being on Saturday Night Live?" or, in Mike's case, "Is being a senator as much fun as being an accountant?

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are unaccustomed to high- tension psychic forces. For whereas the person who is ripe for development will unfold the higher consciousness rapidly in the atmosphere of a high-grade initiate, the person who is not ready may find these influences profoundly disturbing.

The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.

It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

Alice thought to herself I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

Life begins when you do.

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start

The best way to finish an unpleasant task is to get started.