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Tagged: passions, unknown, awakening
The darkest passions lie dormant inside all of us; waiting, sweltering and pulsing with our every breath. It is up to awaken, mold and stimulate them.
-- unknownTagged: 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
Tagged: chains
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. -- Friedrich von Schiller
A standing prick has no conscience. -- English Proverb
Tagged: sex
Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
All hopes benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth. -- Walt Whitman
A successful M/s relationship is contingent upon the synergy of its participants. -- His pet elizabeth
The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides. -- Kahlil Gibran
Tagged: dominance
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM. -- Sensuous Sadie
Tagged: power exchange, Dom Space, transcendence
This notion is at least one explanation of what we call the power exchange. It is also the reason that so many of us feel the sharp focus of illumination as we come away from a successful scene. DomSpace is less physical than the experience of subspace and considerably subtler, but it is every bit as powerful as the experience of subspace. So, what we are after in this exceptional act of passion and cruelty we call a scene is that oneness, that transcendence which is the same goal as religion, which is the same goal as vanilla sex. -- Rick Umbaugh
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
There is a chain that binds U/us,
Me to him and him to me,
An end holds the collar, my hand holds an end,
If I tug, he'll feel the pull,
But if he tugs, I'll feel it too...
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
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: bondage
If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do till you require. -- William Shakespeare
Tagged: love, suffer, understanding
To suffer in love is to completely understand it.
-- Dr. Justin HaleTagged: submission, power, humility
Submission can actually engender power: realizing that you have something to give, and that you are capable of mastering your own will to give it up the way your top wants it instead of the way you think S/He should want it, can inspire pride: not the false pride of an inflated ego, but the true pride that, like humility, comes from knowing the depths of your self. -- William Henkin
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: 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: fear
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- Frank Herbert
Tagged: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
Tagged: speech, service, heart, compassion
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. -- Buddha
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
Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty. -- William Shakespeare
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
The wonder of being a slave, as you put it, isn't that we serve when it suits us but rather that we serve always. -- Unknown
Tagged: pleasure, degradatioin, delight
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: suffer
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Tagged: responsibility, control, trust, worth
To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them,
to have someone willing to suffer for you,
to forsake pride and dignity to please you...
what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that?
And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous
Tagged: temptation
Lead me not into temptation,
I can find it just fine myself. -- Anonymous
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
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
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
Tagged: sexuality
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen
Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
...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
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
Sometimes I feel, like I've been tied to the whippin' post.
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying.
-- The Allman Brothers
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Tagged: master
A mediocre Master tells, a good Master teaches, an excellent Master explains, but a True Master inspires -- Anonymous
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward; be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward. -- Antigonus of Sokho
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
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable
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
Tagged: love, sensation, masochist
The Masochist desires to experience stronger sensations, but desires that it should be inflicted with Love. The Sadist desires to inflict stronger sensations, but desires that it should be felt as Love. -- Unknown
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade




