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.
DAVID DEIDAA fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.
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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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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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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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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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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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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.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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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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Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
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You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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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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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.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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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.
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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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Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
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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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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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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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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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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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