Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
DAVID DEIDA
DAVID DEIDA
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David Deida52 quotes“Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.”
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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 DeidaDavid Deida Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
David DeidaDavid Deida We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.
David DeidaDavid Deida Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David DeidaDavid Deida Whereas women are most turned on by a man’s depth of presence, men are most turned on by a woman’s radiance and energy: how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.
David DeidaDavid Deida Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
David DeidaDavid Deida Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
David DeidaDavid Deida Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
David DeidaDavid Deida You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
David DeidaDavid Deida We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
David DeidaDavid Deida A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
David DeidaDavid Deida Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
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