We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.
People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems.
We are the masters of our own universe.
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.
To master the piano is to master the universe.
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
Death is a master from Germany.
Now I am master of Shanghai.
I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.
Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know it. Gradually we'll become more and more accustomed to being conscious of what we're thinking and our various positive and negative states. We'll become more and more the masters of our mind, rather than the slaves.
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.