Quotes About Initiation

So indirectly you can say it was Miles Davis who got the Byrds started.

Jung is quick to point out that the only [such death and rebirth] "initiation process" that is still alive and practiced today in the West is the analysis of the unconscious as used by doctors for therapeutic purposes.78

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Great things have small beginnings.

Thought is the seed of action.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

I gaped at what I saw next. She yanked his arm off and ate it. Gross! I knew she was hungry, but that was just...well, against the school rules for one thing.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Evangelism is not mere initiation into a relationship with God but the formation of a community within a narrative that is not yet complete.

Thus among the Carrier Indians 33 when a man wants to become a Lulem, or Bear, however cold the season, he tears off his clothes, puts on a bearskin and dashes into the woods, where he will stay for three or four days.

once is never the beginning of enough, is it

You must think of those six steps not as a preparation for the beginning, but as the beginning itself

EL PRINCIPIO DE TODAS LAS COSAS

Being initiated is not like receiving a diploma that you hang on your wall. It only happens when a real goal is achieved in the physical and the spiritual simultaneously—on earth as it is in Heaven. Because of that, a new form of consciousness and spiritual knowledge sprouts from the greatest depth of our existence and stays indefinitely in our being. It is a light that sprouts from the source of the superior self that will guide us until the end of the search.

Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Pour répondre à cette question, nous rappellerons que l'initiation est essentiellement une transmission, et nous ajouterons que ceci peut s'entendre en deux sens différents : d'une part, transmission d'une influence spirituelle, et, d'autre part, transmission d'un enseignement traditionnel. [...]