Quotes about Initiation

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.

Thought is the seed of action.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

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.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE — IS — HARD.

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1.

MOYERS: A new king or new queen of England is given the coronation ring. CAMPBELL: Yes, because there's another aspect of the ring—it is a bondage. As king, you are bound to a principle. You are living not simply your own way. You have been marked. In initiation rites, when people are sacrificed and tattooed, they are bonded to another and to the society.

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.