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 DEIDAThe way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.
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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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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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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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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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Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life… Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you’ve been born to do, now.
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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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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the mover of blood, the breather of breath, the flow of the river’s water. The Feminine is life. We can feel Her moving and living in any moment we are open to Her, or as Her.
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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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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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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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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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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 can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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