Initiation Quotes

• The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Yield, Achievement

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Challenges, Calling, Way

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 31, 2017

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Military, Native American

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• Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Growth, Intuition

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the quest. Relax and retreat”, Larson Pubn

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• The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

  Jill Purce

  Decision, Greek, Growth

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• Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Process, Certain, Whole

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• 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 to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Letting Go, Heart, Soul

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

  Dion Fortune

  Spiritual, Divine, Conscious

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.14, Dion Fortune

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• A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pain, Mistake, Desire

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• Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mean, Journey, Steps

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• What is the meaning of Initiation?  It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

  Aleister Crowley

  Self, Perfection, Path

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• When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

  Michael Beckwith

  Pure Love, Contact, True Nature

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A true initiation never ends.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Ends

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Beautiful, Lessons, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret initiations. Leave that. Just keep the practice very simple, try to stay in the moment and try to stay mindful.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teaching, Simple, Thinking

  Source: fpmt.org

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• 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

  Men, Race, Knowing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

  Michael Beckwith

  Judgment, Our Relationship, Disappear

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Trials, Transformed

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• 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 pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

  Matthew Parris

  War, Exercise, White

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Grieving, Profound

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• 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

  Earth, Spirituality, Birth

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• People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them so that they start to glimpse something more of themselves.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Space, Confusion, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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 made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life And Love, Book, Men

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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