Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
DAVID DEIDASuccessfully 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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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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The 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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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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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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You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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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.
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The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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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.
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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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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
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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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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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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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We’re here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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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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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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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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Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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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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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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