David Deida on action
David Deida52 quotes“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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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
David DeidaDavid Deida Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
David DeidaDavid Deida Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
David DeidaDavid Deida You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida 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.
David DeidaDavid Deida Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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More on action
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Simon SinekSimon Sinek I love doing live action movies, but there’s a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.
Robin WilliamsRobin Williams Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HomerHomer Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
HomerHomer Action is more generally understood than words.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
AristotleAristotle I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.
Megan FoxMegan Fox I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions.
RihannaRihanna
