Quotes About Initiation

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

By initiation into the Mysteries and a certain process known as operative theology, this law of birth and death is transcended, and during the course of physical existence that part of the spirit which is asleep in form is awakened without the intervention of death. This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the Mysteries: that man shall become aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.

refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.

They say all things end. But I say all things begin.

We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start

It all starts right there

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.

The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know nothing of her tutelage. Young girls in our society are not initiated by older women into womanhood with its accompanying dignity and power. Without the Crone, the task of belonging to oneself, of being a whole person, is virtually impossible.

If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning.

This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not.

The beginning is always today.

But there's always a first time for everything

The more competitors perceive the prospect of dogged, bitter retaliation to the point of severely hurting everyone's profits, the less likely they are of initiating the chain of events in the first place. This is analogous to the situation in which the robber says, "stick 'em up, I want your money," and the deranged-looking victim says "If you take it, I will explode this bomb and kill us both!

We are, in large part, a culture that expects its boys to initiate themselves into manhood. But holistic or even minimal initiation into manhood through relatively unguided self-experimentation is rare. Boys cannot become whole men without men and women making them into men.

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At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

A well-trained soul will not fear leaving this world. For the death of the body is the initiation of the soul into the land of immortality.

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

Beginnings are delicate times.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.