Quotes About Initiation

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

THE "GAMES" BEGIN

what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

All London was one grey temple of an awful rite, ring within ring of wizard stones circled about some central place, every circle was an initiation, every initiation eternal loss.

Literally working is easier than thinking on how, when, where to start.

Everyone starts from a raw stage at some point of time.

Any person who has reached an elite level has had to start somewhere, and it's all from grass-roots level.

Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

The chief thing is to begin, after all—after which the chief thing is to finish.

Todos los atenienses estaban iniciados en los misterios eleusinos; solo Sócrates no lo estaba, porque quería conservar las manos libres para que, si fundaba algo en el pensamiento, no le acusasen de haberlo sabido por los misterios eleusinos. Sócrates sabía que la ciencia y el arte no brotan de los misterios y que la sabiduría jamás se halla en el secreto. Antes bien, la verdadera ciencia está en el campo abierto de la conciencia.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Before your turn the key, you have to get in.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Whether we like it or not, one of our tasks on this earth is to work with the opposites through different levels of consciousness until body, soul and spirit resonate together. Initiation rites, experienced at the appropriate times in our lives, burn off what is no longer relevant, opening our eyes to new possibilities of our own uniqueness. They tear off the protective veils of illusion until at last we are strong enough to stand in our own naked truth.

He also had a gung-ho hairline. It couldn't wait to get started

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.

Well begun is half done.

To begin at the beginning.

Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame?

EFFACEMENT Dieu m'a donné l'être pour que je le lui rende. C'est comme une de ces épreuves qui ressemblent à des pièges et qu'on voit dans les contes et les histoires d'initiation. Si j'accepte ce don, il est mauvais et fatal ; sa vertu apparaît par le refus. Dieu me permet d'exister en dehors de lui. A moi de refuser cette autorisation. L'humilité, c'est le refus d'exister en dehors de Dieu. Reine des vertus.