Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
DAVID DEIDAWe 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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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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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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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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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 energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river’s water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her.
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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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You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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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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A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
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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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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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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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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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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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