We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde, Lord Darlington – Act III
Oct 312013
Oct 302013
Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.
– Ryokan (1758-1831)
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154833-why-do-you-so-earnestly-seek-the-truth-in-distant
Oct 292013
‘Cause every time I try to hold my tongue
It slips like a fish from a line
They say if you want to play
You should learn how to play dumb
I guess I can’t bring myself to waste your time
‘Cause we both know what I’ve been doing
I’ve been intentionally bad at lying
You’re the only boy I ever let see through me
And I hope you believe me when I say I’m trying
And I hope I never improve my game
Yeah I’d rather have these things weighing on my mind
And at the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame
There must be a light of some kind
There must be a light of some kind
– Ani DiFranco, Light of Some Kind
Oct 282013
It’s better to walk alone
than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
– Diane Grant
Oct 272013
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.
But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.
– Stephen King
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39893-the-most-important-things-are-the-hardest-to-say-they
Oct 272013
… a slave submits primarily to her own nature. The apparent paradox of introvert/extrovert comes to light – and is resolved – when this basic fact is understood. That she requires a material, external focus for her submission, i.e. the dominant, does not alter the fact that on the spiritual level her submission is essentially introverted. One could say that through the dominant she submits to herself by proxy.
– J. Mikael Togneri, in his essay Spirituality In Slavehood
http://www.leathernroses.com/mikael/mikaelspiritslave.htm
Oct 262013
The BDSM ritual may be predominantly sexual in expression, however the goal is not gratification per se, but ecstasy. BDSM is, above and beyond a physical need, the psyche’s effort to make sex a sacrament. Only through the understanding and acceptance of the sacramental value of submission will slavehood be true. By the same token, of course, it also becomes holy.
– J. Mikael Togneri in his essay Spirituality In Slavehood