Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
- The Zensunni Whip
Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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
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
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
- Darwi Odrade
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.
- The Coda
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect. Our plugs don’t fit.
- Darwi Odrade
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
- Mentat Fixe (adacto)