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#200   + (21) - [X]

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

#197   + (29) - [X]

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

#86   + (34) - [X]

Tagged: love, heart

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

#108   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: dream, pussy

...it seems to make no difference how much the poor bastard actually gets, for he is dreaming about tomorrow's pussy even while pumping away at today's. -- Philip Roth

#103   + (236) - [X]

Tagged: proverb, flesh

The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb

#34   + (48) - [X]

Tagged: sex

I don't know what I am, darling. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw. -- Tallulah Bankhead

#9   + (28) - [X]

Tagged: master, hands

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin

#3   + (20) - [X]

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

#163   + (-47) - [X]

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

#195   + (10) - [X]

Tagged: submission, ritual, sex, sacrament

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

#186   + (38) - [X]

Tagged: service, good, nature, peace, success

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. -- Alex Noble

#31   + (67) - [X]

Tagged: sexuality, sacrament

Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk

#46   + (18) - [X]

Tagged: stars, desires

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare

#45   + (50) - [X]

Tagged: suffer

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock

#27   + (30) - [X]

Tagged: bend, break

I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine

#141   + (11) - [X]

Tagged: bottom, liberty

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

#79   + (56) - [X]

Tagged: soul, diamond

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune

#152   + (58) - [X]

Tagged: sex, obsession, fact

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich

#112   + (-9) - [X]

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

#198   + (0) - [X]

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

#159   + (61) - [X]

Tagged: service, heart, slave

The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to Your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for Your sake... -- William Shakespeare

#44   + (27) - [X]

Tagged: passions, man

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung

#123   + (18) - [X]

Tagged: sex, proverb, creative

Be creative; invent a sexual perversion. -- Graffito

#96   + (21) - [X]

Tagged: sex, money

Sex is like money; only too much is enough. -- John Updike

#143   + (21) - [X]

Tagged: master, fidelity, oath

When Abraham asked Eliezer to swear fidelity, he told him to "place your hand upon my thigh." This was an ancient custom, not some bizarre kink of Abraham's. When taking an oath to a Master, a slave would place his hand upon the Master's thigh near the testicles. Then he would swear to honor his Master's will. -- Master Alan

#91   + (3) - [X]

Tagged: man, dress

A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan

#70   + (32) - [X]

Tagged: life

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin

#105   + (-4) - [X]

Tagged: romance, first love

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde

#47   + (42) - [X]

Tagged: fear

'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'.
'Come to the edge', he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire

#88   + (84) - [X]

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

#117   + (228) - [X]

Tagged: woman, proverb

A woman's "No" is said with one mouth only. -- Proverb

#101   + (17) - [X]

Tagged: love, eyes

The eyes are the silent tongues of love. -- Miguel de Cervantes

#206   + (17) - [X]

Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness

Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine

#71   + (30) - [X]

Tagged: woman, bitch

Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has. -- Stephen King

#183   + (117) - [X]

Tagged: love, ownership, soul, yours

All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. -- Robert Browning

#187   + (8) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, worth

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein

#180   + (34) - [X]

Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent
from the bottom. -- Joseph Bean

#202   + (-26) - [X]

Tagged: slavery, path, crawling

The path to slavery is so narrow that two cannot walk upon it at the same time, hence why the slave must crawl behind. -- Unknown

#12   + (42) - [X]

Tagged: service, life, joy

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

#158   + (94) - [X]

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

#94   + (101) - [X]

Tagged: cherry trees

I want to do with you
What spring does
With the cherry trees. -- Pablo Neruda

#65   + (105) - [X]

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

#124   + (35) - [X]

Tagged: sex, promiscuity

What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes

#220   + (24) - [X]

Tagged: tea, happiness

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.  -- ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake

#1   + (-13) - [X]

Tagged: submission, domination

Submission without domination is when you keep doing what he wants even after he keeps insisting he doesn't want it. Domination without submission is when he keeps telling you to do something and you keep telling him to fuck off. -- Linda

#37   + (28) - [X]

Tagged: temptation

Lead me not into temptation,
I can find it just fine myself. -- Anonymous

#216   + (36) - [X]

Tagged: love, voice, silence

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. -- Robert Sexton

#87   + (28) - [X]

Tagged: question, charm, yes

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question. -- Albert Camus

#107   + (26) - [X]

Tagged: nudge, wink

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. -- Monty Phython's Flying Circus

#210   + (103) - [X]

Tagged: woman, instinct, courage

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous  demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -- Anais Nin

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