Initiation Quotes

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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,… — James Joseph Sylvester
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal… — Ricky Williams
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new — David Spangler
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is… — Ken Schoolland
Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death. — Joseph Campbell
If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all… — Curt Sachs
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals,… — Leonard Sax
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that… — Jacques Vallee
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love. — Sadaharu Oh
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation… — Jack Kornfield
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who… — Aleister Crowley
A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage Î¦X174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method.… — Frederick Sanger
I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at… — Alan Greenspan
A true initiation never ends. — Robert Anton Wilson
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. — Isabelle Adjani
There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount… — Alice Bailey
When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a… — Matthew Parris
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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