Being Initiated Quotes

#1. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

Justin Martyr

#2. If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#3. The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

Franz Bardon

#4. The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

Brian Eno

#5. I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use.

Charlie Trotter

#6. If I was going to have a life of air and nothing, I'd at least like a big fat dick to bounce on.

Alice Clayton

#7. Organizations are great only when their people work as hard for each other as they do for themselves.

Sheri Staak

#8. AT LEAST THREE YEARS ago, my fathers God stopped being my God. His church stopped being my church. And yet, today, because I'm a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I let my father baptize me in all three names of that God who isn't mine any more. My God has another name.

Octavia E. Butler

#9. From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R.D. Laing