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Tagged: pain, understanding
And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. -- Khalil Gibran
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare
There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so! -- William Shakespeare
Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: power, aphrodisiac
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger
Tagged: woman, man, dirty talk
When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. -- Unknown
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
Arousal is a miracle... Don't try to hide it. [It is] an unsolicited endorsement, a standing ovation, a spontaneous demonstration -- Playboy
Tagged: bondage, discipline, trust
In a sense, you will find that it does not matter what stance you take in bondage and discipline games. Either role done well transcends into the other, and to be done well both require trust. -- Lady Ravinia
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin
Tagged: submission, spiritual, nature, symbiotic
A slave submits primarily to her own nature… That she requires a material, extrovert 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… Each makes the other possible, tied together as they are in symbiotic interdependence. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: submission, respect
True Submission & Servitude is not only a form of Respect, but your natural birthright vocation. It is an obligation of servitude, which you are bound to honour your Mistress.
-- Supreme Mistress KajunTagged: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
Tagged: religion, currupt, virtue
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! -- Marquis De Sade
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in me for so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. -- Emma Goldman
Tagged: bdsm, difference, kinky, spiritual
A riding crop and a blindfold doesn't make it BDSM. There is a big difference between being kinky and being in the scene. It's not a sexual thing to me, it's a very spiritual thing. -- DominaBlue
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's the lack of love we die from. -- Margaret Atwood
The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides. -- Kahlil Gibran
A sadist is someone who refuses to be mean to a masochist. -- Anonymous
Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha
...the most beautiful part of her was the long-sloping fall of the haunches from the socket of the back, and then slumberous round stillness of the buttocks. Like hillocks of sand the Arabs say, soft and downward-slipping with a long slope -- D.H. Lawrence
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tagged: breasts
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices. -- Germaine Greer
Tagged: sex, freedom, sex practices
I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. -- Elton John
Thou art to me a delicious torment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
Tagged: master, needs, bottom, slave
Bottoms have appetites that are their own, whereas slaves' needs become the same as those of the Master. -- Guy Baldwin
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes
Tagged: submission, power, mercy
I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Tagged: service, protection, safety
I am your servant. I shall not be free. You will protect me; you will keep me safe; you will guard me. You will keep me sound; you will protect me from every demon. -- Ancient Egyptian woman's slave contract
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock?" "Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night- I changed the lock! -- John Boyle O'Reilly
Tagged: desire, woman, man, want
When I am dead, you'll find it hard, says he
To ever find another like me.
What makes you think, as I suppose you do,
I'll ever want another man like you? -- Eugene T. Ware
Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk
Tagged: edge, explanation
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Tagged: sex
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting. -- Allan Sherman
Tagged: service, worth, price, work, self-sacrifice
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -- John Burroughs
Tagged: surrender
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. -- Thomas Merton
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
A 'working' bottom--one who is actively putting the Top's 'work' to joyful use--has liberty where he or she imagined limits. -- Joseph W. Bean
Tagged: leather, spirituality
I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: love
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
Tagged: sex, art, erotic, philosophical
BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it. -- Elizabeth
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
Tagged: master, slave, centered
How does a master center a slave? Being centered is a Zen term that means a person is balanced, calm, healthy, peaceful, grounded, nourished. Some might see it as a relaxed state, one of calm, creative, full of the realization of being well-off, in communion with one's self and one's environment… How does a master center a slave? He does it by creating, with his slave, a right relationship, that is, one in which each is free to be him or herself; one with openness, honesty, and clarity of purpose. Centering comes from having a clear focus, mutual support, encouragement, and purpose. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: orgasm
I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, "How come you never tell me when you're having an orgasm?" I said to him, "Ernie, you're never around. -- Bette Midler
Tagged: ritual, protocol, essential
Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism." Vagabonds of Gor -- -- John Norman
