David Deida

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

— David Deida

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

— David Deida

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what…

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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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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

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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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Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

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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…

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“Learn to find humor in the unending emotional drama the feminine seems to enjoy so much.”

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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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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in…

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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop…

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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…

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power…

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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…

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As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime,…

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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want…

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Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of…

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“The way you relate to your woman’s chaos reflects the way you react to the chaos of the world. If you are…

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By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and…

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Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align…

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“If I can work enough, then one day I could rest.” Or, “One day my woman will understand something and then she…

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As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can…

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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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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

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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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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

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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…

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“Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart’s surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love—opening until you are exposed fully to…

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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…

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Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep…

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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…

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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…

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By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can…

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Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions…

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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…

— David Deida