Quotes About Initiation

Well, it's a start, but basically it stinks!

felt like mysteries were being unveiled and yet it all felt familiar and more like I was being reminded of things I had already known. I had a sense of initiation into dimensions of existence most people never know exist, including the distinct sense that death was illusory, in the sense that it is a door we walk through into another plane of existence, that we're sprung from an eternity to which we will return.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

the commencement

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.

Todo gran cambio empieza como las fichas de dominó». B. J. Thornton

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it one.

And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...

Are you done?" he asked. "Just getting started." I was so brave over the phone.

It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.

The majority of initiatory ordeals more or less clearly imply a ritual death followed by resurrection or a new birth. The central moment of every initiation is represented by the ceremony symbolizing the death of the novice and his return to the fellowship of the living. But he returns to life a new man, assuming another mode of being. Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, ignorance, and the profane condition.

The term initiation in the most general sense denotes a body of rites and oral teachings whose purpose is to produce a decisive alteration in the religious and social status of the person to be initiated.

It has often been said that one of the characteristics of the modern world is the disappearance of any meaningful rites of initiation.

el iniciado, el que ha conocido los misterios, es el que sabe.

Following Osiris' example, and with his help, the dead are able to transform themselves into "souls," that is, into perfectly integrated and hence indestructible spiritual beings. Murdered and dismembered, Osiris was "reconstituted" by Isis and reanimated by Horus. In this way he inaugurated a new mode of existence: from a powerless shade, he became a "person" who "knows," a duly initiated spiritual being.

God -starts- things,' he [the Lord] said. 'Man stops them.

She held out her arms. And for the first time in heaven, he initiated his contact, he came to her, ignoring the leg, ignoring all the ugly associations he had made about dance and music and weddings, realizing now that they were about loneliness.

The strategy of gaining entry is not unlike seduction: if you ask for permission, you've lost before you've begun.

Sometimes the elements of our life present us with a challenge that is an initiation in disguise, a fire walk that burns your lower nature right out of you so that you are able to adapt to a higher level of consciousness.

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.