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
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.” — Walker Percy 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
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim 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
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast -… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
What I like about the Pleiadians is that they work and meet each person where they are in their own evolution. Every… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Many women do not even have the basic teaching about predators that a wolf mother gives her pups, such as: if it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The actual initiations open up any dense areas in the physical body. The Pleiadian start to break up where the individual is… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“When speaking of initiation, I mean engaging in practices that establish an exchange between conscious reflection and the unconscious material, and developing… — Stephen J. Clark Copy Share Image
“An ‘Initiate’ is someone who has ‘crossed the boundary (or threshold).’ The greatest Initiates have crossed the boundary of death and have… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.” — Dion Fortune 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