Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
DAVID DEIDAWe 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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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.
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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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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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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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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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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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You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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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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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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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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Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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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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