More from David 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 Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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.
David DeidaDavid Deida You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
David DeidaDavid Deida When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.
David DeidaDavid Deida The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
David DeidaDavid Deida
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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More on age
Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan I’m my age and I feel glorious.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Aging will create the music of the coming century.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan Where children are, there is the golden age.
NovalisNovalis Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
SolonSolon
