Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
DAVID DEIDAStop 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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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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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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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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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
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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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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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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
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You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.
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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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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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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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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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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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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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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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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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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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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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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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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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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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You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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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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Your every act can open hearts and minds.
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