Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 76 | 21 | What is important to happiness is that the individual is as she wants to be, and desires to be. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 76 | 18 | Is she not well worth chaining?" Thus, it is not surprising that many slaves, after a time, are not only well pleased with their collars, but find themselves proud to be collared. |
| 76 | 19 | There are two elements here which many who are unfamiliar with these matters may not understand. |
| 76 | 20 | First, what many understand as "freedom" has never been essential to happiness, and may actually prove inimical to it. |
| 76 | 21 | What is important to happiness is that the individual is as she wants to be, and desires to be. |
| 76 | 22 | She is thus to be permitted to find her happiness where she does find it, in fact, and not where someone else would have her find it. |
| 76 | 23 | It is also helpful, of course, if the society recognizes her status, accepts it, and approves it. |
| 76 | 24 | The ideal then is that she finds herself fulfilling a recognized, accepted, approved, and valued societal role, and finds her personal fulfillment and happiness in doing so. |
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Is she not well worth chaining?" Thus, it is not surprising that many slaves, after a time, are not only well pleased with their collars, but find themselves proud to be collared.
There are two elements here which many who are unfamiliar with these matters may not understand.
First, what many understand as "freedom" has never been essential to happiness, and may actually prove inimical to it.
What is important to happiness is that the individual is as she wants to be, and desires to be.
She is thus to be permitted to find her happiness where she does find it, in fact, and not where someone else would have her find it.
It is also helpful, of course, if the society recognizes her status, accepts it, and approves it.
The ideal then is that she finds herself fulfilling a recognized, accepted, approved, and valued societal role, and finds her personal fulfillment and happiness in doing so.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter 76)