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 DEIDAAnyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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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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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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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.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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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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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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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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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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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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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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine’s need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it.
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The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
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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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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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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.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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