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'.
Interpretation
Love involves confronting fears and vulnerabilities, embracing the present moment fully.
This quote by David Deida conveys the idea that true love entails facing our fears and being open to emotional experiences, rather than retreating into comfort. It emphasizes the importance of surrendering our ego and accepting the fullness of our experiences, whether they are joyful or painful, in order to genuinely connect with ourselves and others through love.
In practice
In a relationship discussion, to highlight the importance of emotional openness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I first saw you, I saw love_x000D_ _x000D_ And the first time you touched me, I felt love_x000D_ _x000D_ And after all this time,_x000D_ _x000D_ You're still the one I love.
I don't care about fashion, I care about women.
I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!
And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home
What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
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