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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.

David Deida

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Open Refuse Suffering Yourself
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
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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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Deep Family Friendship Love Relationship
You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Break Deep Light Surrender Woman Yourself
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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Fulfill Himself Intimate Man Opportunity Seek Work
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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Art Career Family Feeling Love Lover Man Simplicity Woman Yourself
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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Beyond Heart Pain Practice Reality Satisfaction Yourself
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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Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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Existence Spirituality
Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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Fear Kiss Lips Live Violate Yourself
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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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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Act Heart Mindset Yourself
If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
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Art Body Emotion Mindset Philosophy Practice Truth Yourself
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.
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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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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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