#master

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. ↗

— Alan Moore

#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#begins #classroom #closest #convey #family

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Why they think everyone should be alike in making love when no one can even agree on what ice cream they like, I'll never know from Dark Citadel ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#love

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #golden #golden-rule #imperfect #imperfection

Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth?? Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth. ↗

— Toba Beta

#master-of-stupidity #perception #smart-ass-disciple #truth #life

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#divinity #emulate #gift #great #greatest

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#everyone #exists #horrible #horrible things #liberating

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#himself #mastered #may #mightier #others