The 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.
DAVID DEIDAYou are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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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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By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.
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You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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We’re here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
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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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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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