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.
Interpretation
Live fully in the present and embrace love without hesitation.
David Deida emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment and not postponing love or life for a later time. Holding back from expressing love or fully engaging with life leads to suffering, and each moment is an opportunity to open your heart and connect with others deeply.
In practice
In a motivational speech about living authentically and loving fully.
One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.
Whereas women are most turned on by a man's depth of presence,_x000D_ men are most turned on by a woman's radiance and energy:_x000D_ how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.
Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience.
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.
Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.
I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.