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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.

David Deida

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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Challenge Freedom Growth Himself Praise
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
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
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
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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Conscious Deep Love Ourselves Tolerance Worship
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
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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Angry Feeling Life Love Yourself
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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Live Love Order Suffering Wait Yourself
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
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
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
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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Difference Fair Feeling Philosophy Truth
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.
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Best Intimate Live Man Strong Yourself
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.
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Growth Happiness Praise Quality Radiant Time Woman Yourself
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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Celebration Life Moments Test
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

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 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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