David Deida - Blue Truth (2004)

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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 practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

David Deida
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...

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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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Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

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

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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 are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

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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 fully and live open.

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