Quotes from David Deida

By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.

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.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

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

Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.

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.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

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

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.

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.

You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.

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

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

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

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.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

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.

Whereas women are most turned on by a man's depth of presence, men are most turned on by a woman's radiance and energy: how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

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