Quotes About Initiation

The dance form has been a lifestyle that I was initiated to at an early age. It has been the only constant in my life, like a friend bringing happiness and pain. I cannot imagine living without it.

The hero's journey has three main parts: Departure, Initiation, and Return. The hero hears a call, refuses it at first, and then crosses the threshold into a new world. During Initiation, he faces stiff challenges and stares into the abyss. But along the way—usually with the help of mentors who give the hero a divine gift—he transforms and becomes at one with his new self. Then he returns, becoming the master of two worlds, committed to improving each.

But instead of the end, I'm pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

You stand on the sidelines of life wishing you were a participant. You don't know how to initiate a relationship, a conversation, an activity. You are withdrawn and would rather bear the pangs of being alone than risk interaction. You are not spontaneous. You allow yourself very little excitement or fun.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing.

What do I really want? What will it cost? Am I willing to pay the price? When should I start paying the price?

The first time is always the hardest

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I came into the league in '94.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Just joined. More later.

to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me here? What issues in my heart are you trying to raise through this? What is it you want me to see? What are you asking me to let go of?

Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

The father is to speak into his son's heart deep affirmation. Yes, you do. You have what it takes. He needs a hundred experiences that will help him get there, and he is wounded and emasculated when he is kept from those experiences, or left on his own to interpret them, or when no one is there to help him in his journey toward initiation.

It was also the prelude

A school's job [is] to begin education.

Let the experience begin!

True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

You can't initiate anything good in life if you don't seriously mean it from inside.