Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.
Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
Fragmentation is the natural destiny of all power.
Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely.” “That’s.
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.
Reason is valuable,” he said, “only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.” Her.
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s first sequel to Dune, was published in 1969. In that book, he flipped over what he called the “myth of the hero” and showed the dark side of Paul Atreides. Some readers didn’t understand it. Why would the author do that to his great hero? In interviews, Dad spent years afterward explaining why, and his reasons were sound. He believed that charismatic leaders could be dangerous because they could lead their followers off the edge of a cliff.
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought – the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?
And the question of Wester religion,” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.
What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground – and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.
It doesn’t follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.
The Fremen! They’re paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that’s freely available to anyone with desert power – spice.
The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.
The tribal commander must lose no face among those who should obey him. Paul.