Quotes About Initiation

Never try to leap from a standstill.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.

He uttered a triumphant cry: It is Accomplished! And it was as though he had said: Everything has begun.

A journey to nowhere also begins with a single step

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small

She'd never been the first person to open a book.

She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.

J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose.

Note also the ritual use of Jesus' name in Christian baptism, the common initiation rite in early Christian circles (e.g., Acts 2:38). Paul's rhetorical question to the Corinthians, "Were you baptized in the name of Paul?" (1 Cor 1:13 NRSV)

I've only just begun.

it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity—two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them—and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta

?i c?r?ile pot fi mentori, ba chiar pot fi sursa unui moment de ini?iere.

Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration.

Every journey begins with one step.

Like everyone else, when you start out you must begin from a position of being completely unknown. No option.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.