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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

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
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
Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Essential Love Ourselves Stress
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Open Refuse Suffering Yourself
You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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Generosity 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
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
When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.
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Fear Flow Force Life Love Oneself Separate
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
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
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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Better Future Life Live Love Moments Order Time Wait 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
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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Body Embrace Heart Herself Learning Live Mystery Open Universe
A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
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Fear Himself Man Philosophy Trust
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
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

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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