Quotes About Initiation

The only joy in the world is to begin.

All beginnings are hard.

I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the 'Times Food Guide Awards,' so it was with The 'Times of India' that my career began in this field.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

The initiation with its various tortures lasted about a week, and I cheerfully accepted penances which, if they were imposed in a monastery, for a supernatural motive, and for some real reason, instead of for no reason at all, would cause such an uproar that all religious houses would be closed and the Catholic Church would probably have a hard time staying in the country.

There is an answer. There is a meeting point between containment and liberation, and we can find it in the rites of initiation that I have been discussing. They can make it possible for individuals, or whole groups of people, to unite the opposing forces within themselves and achieve an equilibrium in their lives.

the menstrual cycle may actually be the major part of initiation from a woman's point of view, since it has the power to awaken the deepest sense of obedience to life's creative power over her. Thus she willingly gives herself to her womanly function, much as a man gives himself to his assigned role in the community life of his group.

For thousands of years, rites of initiation have been teaching spiritual rebirth; yet, strangely enough, man forgets again and again the meaning of divine procreation.

All of us begin somewhere.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Well begun is half done.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

The first step is the hardest.

Every beginning is hard.

It starts at midnight.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.

I've always been a slow starter.