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

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David Deida
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: March 18
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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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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As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.
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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 greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
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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 our radiance.
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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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