I never asked you to debase yourself like this. I never gave you an order to kiss my feet. I never commanded you to worship me in this most reverential of ways. I didn’t.
What I did do with all the pleasure I give you, with those meandering and dark words I whisper, with all the inventive ways I have to inflict delicious pain on your body is this: I awakened the true submissive that you are.
And that, my dear pet, is way more powerful than ordering you to do it.
Devotional Training: Powerful Enough To Awaken Submission.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery
