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 DEIDAMasculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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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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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn’t feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
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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.
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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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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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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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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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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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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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