A Quote by Octavia Butler
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified.
You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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