Archive for the ‘Bene Gesserit’ Category

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

- Darwi Odrade

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work.

- Darwi Odrade
 

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment is often more potent. It can guide reaction whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.

- Bene Gesserit Advice to Postulants

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Battle? There’s always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.

- The Bashar Teg

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chance with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

- Darwi Odrade

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

- The Coda

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. He is the secret meaning of Free Will.

- Missionaria Protectiva Protective Teaching
 

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags you to doom. (HM rule) Bene Gesserit Commentary: Who judges?

- The Dortujla Record

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

A hunchback does not see his own hunch – Folk Saying. Bene Gesserit Commentary: The hunch may be seen with the aid of mirrors but mirrors may show the whole being.

- The Bashar Teg

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

We witness a passing phrase of eternity. Important things happen but some people never notice. Accidents intervene. You are not present at episodes. You depend on reports. And people shutter their minds. What good are reports? History in a news account? Preselected at an editorial conference, digested and excreted by prejudice? Accounts you need seldom come from those who make history. Diaries, memoirs and autobiographies are subjective forms of special pleading. Archives are crammed with such suspect stuff.

- Darwi Odrade