black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

David Deida

You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
DAVID DEIDA

Generosity Yourself
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 DEIDA

Art Career Family Feeling Love Lover Man Simplicity Woman Yourself
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 DEIDA

Deep Energy Herself Love Man Move Open Presence Radiant Smile Woman
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 DEIDA

Age Happiness Maturity Ourselves Radiant True
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.
DAVID DEIDA

Feeling Goodness Purpose Success Yourself
Your every act can open hearts and minds.
DAVID DEIDA

Act Heart Mindset Yourself
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.
DAVID DEIDA

Art Body Emotion Mindset Philosophy Practice 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.
DAVID DEIDA

Action Affect Freedom Liberty Love Purpose Yourself
The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine’s need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it.
DAVID DEIDA

Evolution Force Life Mystery Need Note Science Temporary Wisdom
A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.
DAVID DEIDA

Fear Himself Man Philosophy Trust
Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
DAVID DEIDA

Angry Feeling Life Love Yourself
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
DAVID DEIDA

Live Love Order Suffering Wait 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.
DAVID DEIDA

Body Embrace Heart Herself Learning Live Mystery Open Universe
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
DAVID DEIDA

Difference Fair Feeling Philosophy Truth
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 DEIDA

Feeling Freedom Life Live Yourself
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 DEIDA

Action Choice Emotion Learning Moments Open

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More David Deida Quotes