Initiation Quote by Sylvia Plath Download Open image ““Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.”” — Sylvia Plath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Initiation Short stories
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past.… — Assotto Saint Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.” — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“I am just a mythological creature, after all. I technically shouldn't exist.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“In the end the myth didn’t matter. What mattered in reality was a person’s character, what he did with the life and abilities God… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of stories and legends is that they give us another way to understand ourselves and the place we inhabit.” — James C. Christensen Copy Share Image
“In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath 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 method that… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester 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
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand 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 worshipped from… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert,… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
“...a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
