Initiatic Quotes & Sayings

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it. — Bradford Cox

In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through. — Ben Elliot

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity. — Brandon Bays

My parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. — J.K. Rowling

[about her offer of a Swedish massage]
Alex: You're not Swedish.
Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference. — Simone Elkeles

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one. — Abdelkader El Djezairi

You're a vision." I narrowed my eyes at him. "Like the kind you see after a healthy dose of peyote?" "No, you know, it sort of looks like something some of the more promiscuous girls might have worn in my day," Gabriel said. "On what planet is that a compliment?" I demanded as Dick laughed. — Molly Harper

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope. — Greg Mortenson

All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one. — Maxim Gorky

Without action, you aren't going anywhere. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything. — Annie Barrows