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Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

David Deida

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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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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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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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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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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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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The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
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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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You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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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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