The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit. ” (Analects 4. 16)
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
In Zen we have no gurus.
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E. A. Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.
In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H. P. B. , for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.
The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.
To be Master of the Universe (in other words, to be master of your own personal universe) choose "what is so".
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.
