Quotes About Initiation

The beginning is the most important part of any work,' while the Chinese say, 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

this is your first time and you'd love her to provide you with a to-do list and also any information you might not think of. She

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Everything begins with intention,

His report described a typical beka initiation, complete with slaughtered sheep and chickens, the neck of a tortoise (because it resembles a penis), and "virgin lasses" in attendance through a long prelude that culminates at four in the morning.

At dawn the boy bathes, then stays awake until late afternoon, pacing and expectant, at which point the circumciser comes at him with a homemade knife. "I nursed my wound for 45 days after," one initiate said.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation.

a spark begins a bonfire...be that spark".

Masters today, were Starters Yesterday, so begin now.

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune

In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously cold, tremendously tight brotherhood that you possessed the hardness required to watch their backs.

The beginning is always so hard. Any beginning is always so hard.

You start whenever you decide to start.

Remember that you are nothing but a beginner.

Initiation, or the process of undergoing an expansion of consciousness, is part of the normal process of evolutionary development, viewed on a large scale, and not from the standpoint of the individual.

Heya, newbie!" Newbie? I squinted. Not quite sure how to take that.

Il s'y connaissait aussi peu qu'elle et aimait perdre son ignorance au meme rythme.C'etait une initiation qu'ils vivaient ensemble et dont il se reservait cependant la male initiative.