Shamanic Initiation Quotes

#1. If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

Marco Arment

#2. As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings.

S. Kelley Harrell

#3. As a kid, what brought me in the gym, what got me in there every day was a chance to break your personal best, a chance to be strong; I just really, really dig that.

John Cena

#4. We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Michael Nutter

#5. I always feel I do it too slow, but then others do it faster.

Eugene Ormandy

#6. Innumerable soldiers have told me they don't want to be thanked for their service and they don't want to be seen as heroes (or, for that matter, villains). They want to be respected for the job they did and the pride they took in doing it well.

Elizabeth Heaney

#7. Turren blinked and then smiled from ear to ear. "What makes a pure soul extra purer?"

"I don't know," Sebastian said. "I didn't eat anything weird today.

Sam Argent

#8. If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

Larisa Alexandrovna

#9. Look, who's the talking bear here?" Quentin snapped. "Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up.

Lev Grossman

#10. I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

Hugh Jackman

#11. Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One's own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

Lawren Leo

#13. Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#14. Every initiation reaches a point of crisis, by design. If it was easy to let go of the old way, there would be no need for initiation. We'd seat easily into new wisdom.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.

Mary Trainor-Brigham

#16. The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Frederick C. Beiser