Quotes About Initiation

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

the quality of onset determines the quality of the ensuing phonation.

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'

But never had come first.

Thought is the seed of action.

What we call results are beginnings.

The mountain, as Evola describes it in these essays, is portrayed as the guardian of the initiatory threshold over which anyone who wants to be initiated must cross at least once in a lifetime; otherwise it's better never to have been born, because the meaning of life is found only through realizing oneself. But we realize ourselves only by putting ourselves to the test.

Two Dimensions of Executive Skills: Thinking and Doing Executive skills involving thinking (cognition) Working memory Planning/prioritization Organization Time management Metacognition Executive skills involving doing (behavior) Response inhibition Emotional control Sustained attention Task initiation Goal-directed persistence Flexibility

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

sometimes a start is all we ever get.

Wherever you are is the entry point

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.

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This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all. To

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

Doesn't matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.

God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

What's odd about commencement is that so many people think of it as the end of something, the end of high school or college--but that's not what the word means at all. It means the beginning, the start of something new.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

In the words of Libet, "The initiation of the freely voluntary act appears to begin in the brain unconsciously, well before the person consciously knows he wants to act!

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Os verdadeiros começos começam dentro de nós, mesmo que suscitados por oportunidades externas.