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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.

David 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.
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Afraid Desire Heart Life Live Ourselves See
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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Feeling Goodness Purpose Success Yourself
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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Age Happiness Maturity Ourselves Radiant True
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 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
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
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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Fall Freedom Gift Live Moments Opportunity Sacrifice Yourself
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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Action Choice Emotion Learning Moments Open
Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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Moments One Liner Time Wasted Wait
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
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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Live Man Money Security Wait Woman
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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Action Capacity Decision Deep Future Intuition Yourself
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 masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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Creation Freedom Greatness Politics Struggle
Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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Enlightenment Happiness Yourself
Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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Live Lying Satisfaction Yourself

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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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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