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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

David Deida

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
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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Difference Fair Feeling Philosophy Truth
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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Best Intimate Live Man Strong Yourself
Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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Live Lying Satisfaction Yourself
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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Action Choice Emotion Learning Moments Open
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
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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Fulfill Himself Intimate Man Opportunity Seek Work
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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Art Career Family Feeling Love Lover Man Simplicity Woman Yourself
Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
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Action Capacity Decision Deep Future Intuition Yourself
You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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Generosity 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
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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Angry Feeling Hate Hurt Love Offering Practice Spiritual Understand
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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Open Refuse Suffering Yourself
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
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Live Love Order Suffering Wait Yourself
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 can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Break Deep Light Surrender Woman Yourself

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

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