Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
DAVID DEIDAYour heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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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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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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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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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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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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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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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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Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
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You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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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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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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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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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.
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