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.
DAVID DEIDAThe masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.
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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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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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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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