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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

David Deida

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Essential Love Ourselves Stress
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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Creation Energy Flow Human Love Motion Negative People Positive Science
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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Beyond Heart Pain Practice Reality Satisfaction Yourself
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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Challenge Freedom Growth Himself Praise
You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.
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Deep Fear Gift Love Yourself
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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Fear Himself Man Philosophy Trust
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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Creation Freedom Greatness Politics Struggle
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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Born Hope Life Love Stop Yourself
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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Bond Deep Feeling Heart Right
Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.
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Emotion God Inspirational Ocean Thankful Woman
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Open Refuse Suffering Yourself
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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Afraid Desire Heart Life Live Ourselves See
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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Live Man Money Security Wait Woman
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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Age Happiness Maturity Ourselves Radiant True
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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Fall Freedom Gift Live Moments Opportunity Sacrifice Yourself
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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Action Affect Freedom Liberty Love Purpose Yourself

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

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