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must not 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 I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
must not 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 I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“A human can override any nerve in the body.”
“A human can override any nerve in the body.”
He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity.
Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose.
The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs.
A world is supported by four things. …” She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “… the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing. …” She closed her fingers into a fist. “… without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’
You can’t let someone pauperize you!”
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
giving himself up to the internal awareness of grief. That, at least, was truth.
motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. If I made him do … this, then it would not be his doing.”
that came between them, a breeze from a ventilator could be heard fingering the blinds.
the laser beam intersected a hot shield. The Atreides relied on
wondered: Who is this creature? “Then you saved
from
unobserved,
beneath
growing
the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
thousand.”
“But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.”
“I’m morally tired.
“Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura,”
disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.
“Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Does every human have this blind spot? he wondered. Can any of us be ordered into action before he can resist?
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
voice,
“Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.”
And always he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.
He has that tremendous, almost naive honor—and what a powerful force that truly is.
“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.”
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
“The absence of a thing,” the Baron said, “this can be as deadly as the presence.
vortex began as an abrupt
“Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.”
‘A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.’
“Speed is a device of Shaitan.
have little to do with how you’ll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.”
Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife?
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
“span-nungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
