Quotes About Initiation

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

The start is what stops most people.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

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.

The truth of the profane was the falsehood of the Neophyte, and the truth of the Neophyte was the falsehood of the Zelator! Again and again the fortress must be battered down! Again and again the pylon must be overthrown! Again and again must the gods be desecrated!

That's why the first real

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

What we call results are beginnings.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

toda ação principia mesmo é por uma palavra pensada

It's double-action: You've got to cock it before you can fire.

To attain the satisfactions of the mystic state without having to endure its rigours; to be the ecstatic follower of no god, the mystic or epopt* with no initiation; to pass the days meditating on a paradise you don't believe in – all of this tastes good to the soul that knows what it means to know nothing.

You only get one shot to do a first feature.

My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

The second guy always gets caught, and that's why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.

Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

Poverty is perpetual active vigil and expectation before the eternal sources of creativity; it is the soul awaiting that which is new and unexpected; it is the aptitude for learning always and everywhere; it is the conditio sine qua non of all illumination, all revelation and all initiation.

Sooner or later the Curse of the Cult blights every group that sets out to attain the heights. They close the circle, form a tight little mutual-admiration society, deify their leader (especially after the leader is dead), despise nonmembers as uninitiated barbarians, flatter themselves that they alone hold "the keys of the kingdom," and turn into spiritual fossils while deluding themselves into thinking that they are High Initiates.

Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.