“...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.” — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at… — William Broyles, Jr Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Many people think the Pleiadians are in spirit form, but they're not. They exist as a civilization in the fifth/sixth dimensional evolution,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“to enter into a journey of initiation with God requires a new set of questions: What are you trying to teach me… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force.… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“I remember reading about these primitive initiation rituals in school. They had one where they take the kid way out into the… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
“The interest of initiation for an understanding of archaic mentality lies predominantly in its showing us that the true man-the spiritual man-is… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. — Sadaharu Oh Copy Share Image
![“You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you...' [...] Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to…” quote by Alfred Bester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ba/alfred-bester-12060_1956_you-pigs-you-you-rut-like-pigs-is-all-yo_1196508.jpg)
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