Initiation Quotes (61) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Initiation. The act or process of initiating something. b. The process of being initiated. The condition of being initiated. A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge..
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“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman
“The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.”
~ Seth Godin
“We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.”
~ Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.”
~ Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again
“Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.”
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
“When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.”
~ Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.”
~ Zeena Schreck
“A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.”
~ Zeena Schreck
“It has been well and truly said that in the exoteric church the ceremony is performed by one person for the benefit of the congregation; but in the Lodge the ceremony is performed by the congregation for the benefit of one person.”
~ Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate
“You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.”
~ Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“...a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are unaccustomed to high- tension psychic forces. For whereas the person who is ripe for development will unfold the higher consciousness rapidly in the atmosphere of a high-grade initiate, the person who is not ready may find these influences profoundly disturbing.”
~ Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense
“If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.”
~ Vivianne Crowley
“The O.T.O. is an initiatory order similar to freemasonry. It doesn't provide educational monographs or standardized tests. Rather, it offers members the opportunity to experience a series of dramatic and magical initiations artfully designed to awaken and unfold the candidates' spiritual potentialities. If a member did nothing else with the O.T.O. career but undergo these degree experiences, they would be immeasurably rewarded. Serious members know, however, that there is much more to the O.T.O.'s magick than a two-hour ceremony performed once or twice a year. So profound are the Order's inner mysteries that to penetrate them requires not only a rich magical and spiritual education, but also a high level of meditative attainment. Members who wish to truly affiliate at this level are expected to seize responsibility for their own magical education and eventually rend the veil of the Order's mysteries for themselves.”
~ Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician: A Magical Autobiography
“The outsiders stood always in awe in front of what they had surnamed the Celestial City with Mighty Walls. The great mystery that cloaked its very foundations kept impelling the youth of Crotona, as well as those of the adjacent cities, to seek admittance. In spite of the difficult rules of the Master, curiosity goaded many to venture inside its secrecy, with a passionate aspiration to discover the unknown. Yet, to enroll, young men and women should be introduced by their parents. Sometimes, it was one of the assigned Masters of the Pythagorean Society who assumed the introduction. At the massive wooden gated entrance, one could admire the marble statue of Hermes-Enoch, the father of the spiritual laws. A cubical stone formed its stall where a skillful hand had carved the words: No entry to the vulgar”
~ Karim El Koussa, Pythagoras the Mathemagician
“A holy moonlit night turned into day, when the Sun appeared from the bosom of the Light—the Most High. The Sun became the Son of God. It stood as the Master in the center of its own system, radiating energy in all directions, towards and throughout the circumference. In that circle, the planets—disciples of the Sun—followed an order of strict consistency. They breathed in its heat, and looped around it in an act of worship.”
~ Karim El Koussa, The Phoenician Code
“start something, with a knowledge to end it.”
~ Krishna Sagar
“The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.”
~ Dion Fortune, The Esoteric Orders and Their Work
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
A true initiation never ends.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
~ Dean Inge
The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.
~ Michael Leunig
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
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.
~ John Dewey
Whatever your problem, it is but a test in love. If you meet that test through love, your problem will be solved. If you do not meet that test through love, your problem will continue until you do! Your problem is your initiation in love.
~ Catherine Ponder
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.
~ Joseph Campbell
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
It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
~ Dion Fortune
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts
~ Plato
I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
~ William Broyles, Jr.
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
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.
~ Alice Bailey
The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.
~ Alice Bailey
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.
~ Paul Brunton
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.
~ Karen Armstrong
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
~ Veronica Roth
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without these one] fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.
~ John Dewey
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
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.
~ James Hansen
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.
~ Joseph Campbell
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.
~ Jacques Vallee
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
~ Robin Lim
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans...
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
~ Charles Dickens
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 to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.
~ Jack Kornfield
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
~ Robert Bly
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
~ Frederick Lenz
To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.
~ Don G. Campbell
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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
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 importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.
~ Alice Bailey
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
~ Alberto Manguel
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
~ Tahir Shah
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
~ Joseph Campbell
Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.
~ Joseph Campbell
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