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Tagged: submission, masochism, gifts, power exchange
A submissive washing dishes for his dominant, knowing that each soap bubble, each swirl of water is a gift, an honoring, may feel the humming resonance of a hunger, partially satisfied, deep in his spirit. A domme, caught up in the meditative precision of tying each knot precisely *so*, may feel an echo of cathedral walls around her, each motion guiding her, and those around her closer to the God they seek. A masochist, floating in the scintillations of painwaves as the whip falls against her time and time again, may begin to feel their cadence as the cadence of prayer. A hesitant sadist may, with the first hissing of his partner's breath, begin to understand the transformative power he wields with his strap. -- Unknown
The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb
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: 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
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. -- Brian Setzer
Tagged: power, influence, lady
Power is like being a lady. . . if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Tagged: ritual, fear, pain, lust
There are rituals of lust and joy and pain and fear. These, forced to extremes, meld in the mind, and in that melding they may make or dissolve our egos, bodies, or spirits. -- Raven Greywalker (Lilith)
Tagged: bdsm, religious doctrine, opposition
BDSM appears to stand in opposition to much religious doctrine (speaking primarily to the Christian doctrines here), and there are aspects on the extreme fringes that in fact are in opposition to direct religious teachings. I said 'appears' for a very good reason. In fact, a large percentage of the spiritual teachings parallel the basic premises of D/s. -- Mistress Steel
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Tagged: sex
In lovemaking, as in other arts, those who do it best can not tell how it is done. -- James M. Barrie
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung
Tagged: leader, woman, possessed
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: power, aphrodisiac
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger
That which yields is not always weak. -- Jacqueline Carey
To say that you can love one person all your life is like saying that one candle will continue to burn as long as you live. -- Leo Tolstoy
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk
Tagged: sexuality
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen
Tagged: love, service, life, calling
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey
Tagged: master
A mediocre Master tells, a good Master teaches, an excellent Master explains, but a True Master inspires -- Anonymous
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan
And, graven with diamonds, in letters plain/There is written her fair neck round about:/"Noli me tangere", for Caesar's I am;/And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. -- Petrarch
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: slavery, study, patience, learning
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves. Or learning every nuance of their owner's character, so that they can more completely and seamlessly offer themselves at the right time and in the right manner. -- Laura Antoniou
Tagged: find, submissive, question
The single most common question in BDSM is "How do I find a submissive?" -- John Warren, Ph.D
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato
Tagged: kissing
Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police; some swear; some bite; but the worst are those who laugh. -- Anonymous
Tagged: woman, protection, man, equal
Woman was created from Man's rib; Not made from His head to top Him; Nor from His feet to be trampled; But from His side to be His equal, Under His arm to be protected, And near His heart to be loved. -- Unknown
Tagged: discipline, suffer, pain
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -- Jim Rohn
Tagged: submission, slavery
Submissives need to be told what to do. Slaves need to do what they are told. -- Unknown
Tagged: submission, permission, right
You are no one's slave, dog, slut, or sub until you give them that right. Only you can give it. No one can take or assume it without your permission. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: beauty
Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson
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: 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
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. -- Albert Camus
Tagged: life, journey, destiny
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Tagged: calling, slave, vocation
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: life
Think of three things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. -- Benjamin Franklin
I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave. -- From the movie Labryinth -- David Bowie
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran
There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded. -- Rachel Field
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: confidence, knowledge, awareness
Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine
Tagged: sex, love, vanilla, erotic, s/m
Many vanilla people are surprised to learn that S/M includes erotic spanks, scratches, and bites, which are amazingly common forms of erotic expression. They are also surprised to find out that S/M practitioners can fall in love, and that they enjoy conventional sex acts such as oral sex and intercourse. -- Laura Goodwin
Tagged: torture, pleasure, body
The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. -- Charles Levin
Tagged: cherry trees
I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda
