The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.
DAVID DEIDAThe real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don’t open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn’t have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.
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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.
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You have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.
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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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