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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

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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Existence Spirituality
Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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Action Enjoyment Separate
The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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Deep Family Friendship Love Relationship
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
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
You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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Generosity Yourself
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.
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Growth Happiness Praise Quality Radiant Time Woman 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
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
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
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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Fall Freedom Gift Live Moments Opportunity Sacrifice Yourself
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
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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Action Affect Freedom Liberty Love Purpose Yourself
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
Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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Live Lying Satisfaction Yourself
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

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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