Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
DAVID DEIDAIf you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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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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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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The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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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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Every moment waited is a moment wasted.
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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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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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Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
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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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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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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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.
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Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
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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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You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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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.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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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.
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The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.
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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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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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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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