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Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
Does a chip caught in the wave say where it’s going? There’s no cause and effect in the oracle. Causes become occasions of convections and confluences, places where the currents meet.
Consistency isn’t a necessary aspect of the universe.”
“Can you collect chaos?” the ghola asked. “We Zensunni say: ‘Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering.’ What can you gather without gathering yourself?”
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
He could sense that element of himself which was one with those all around him, but the differences formed a deadly contradiction. He stood immersed, isolated in a personal sin which he could never expiate.
remind you that all things are but a beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered.
“Nothing is lost. Everything returns later, but you may not recognize the changed form that returns.”
Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
“There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers,”
Real flesh lay condensed, finite in its emerald cavern of awareness, but infinite life had shared his being.
People are subordinate to government, but the ruled influence the rulers.
