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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 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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Breathe Energy Flow Herself Life Move
You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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Deep Fear Gift Love Yourself
Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn’t have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.
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Courage Creativity Day Generosity Time Yourself
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
Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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Moments One Liner Time Wasted Wait
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
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
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Angry Feeling Hate Hurt Love Offering Practice Spiritual Understand
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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Celebration Life Moments Test
Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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Action Enjoyment Separate
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
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
Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life… Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you’ve been born to do, now.
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Born Hope Life Love Stop Yourself
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 can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Break Deep Light Surrender 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
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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Heart Lying Open Suffering Truth 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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Afraid Desire Heart Life Live Ourselves See
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
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
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
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
Whereas women are most turned on by a man’s depth of presence, men are most turned on by a woman’s radiance and energy: how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.
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Deep Energy Herself Love Man Move Open Presence Radiant Smile Woman
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
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
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 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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Feeling Freedom Life Live 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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