Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
DAVID DEIDA
DAVID DEIDA
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David Deida52 quotes“Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.”
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
David DeidaDavid 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
David DeidaDavid Deida But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
David DeidaDavid Deida The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.
David DeidaDavid Deida Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
David DeidaDavid Deida You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.
David DeidaDavid Deida Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
David DeidaDavid Deida Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
David DeidaDavid Deida You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
David DeidaDavid 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu ReevesKeanu Reeves Celebrate your strength. You’ve come so far in your practice and have survived 100% of your bad days.
Diana TurnerDiana Turner Enjoy every little struggle of life and celebrate the progress.
Diana TurnerDiana Turner No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia You need to take a break and celebrate your success no matter how small it may seem.
Terry HarrisTerry Harris If you find success in a different path at a different rate, celebrate and don’t ever doubt yourself.
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman