Initiation Quotes
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Initiation Quotes & Sayings
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To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic.
— Ian Morgan Cron
Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.
— Joseph Campbell
Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.
— S. Kelley Harrell
As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings.
— S. Kelley Harrell
We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.
— Dion Fortune
I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.
— Roberto Bolano
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.
— Tariq Ramadan
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
— Don G. Campbell
It's war that makes generals
— Seth Godin
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventurefearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
At the heart of all things is love.
— Sadaharu Oh
A true initiation never ends.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.
— Julia Cameron
At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.
— Michael Meade
In life, nobody gets out alive.
— William Blystone
Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ...
— John Geddes
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
— Frederick Lenz
Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.
— Sylvia Plath
The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.
— Alice Bailey
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
— Veronica Roth
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
— Isabelle Adjani
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
— Sadaharu Oh
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
— Aleister Crowley
The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
— Walker Percy
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. — Veronica Roth
It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
— Dion Fortune
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
— Ira Gershwin
Why is it you never know how much someone means to you until they are gone?
— Sheena Hutchinson
My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
— Shirley Maclaine
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
— Aleister Crowley
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.
— Dion Fortune
questioning is the engine of contemporary initiation. Questions
— Linda Sussman
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
— William Broyles Jr.
start something, with a knowledge to end it.
— Krishna Sagar
