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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

You must practice, daily, the art of feeling through your fear, feeling to your edge, and then living just beyond your edge, neither slinking into private consolation nor pushing so hard you disconnect from your source.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

Your masculine gift is to know where you are, where you want to be, and what you need to do to get there. If you don't know one of these, then you need to discover it by any means necessary.This vision is, essentially, the basic gift you have to offer your woman, as well as the world. If you have no higher vision than the day-to-day grind of housework, job, childcare, TV, and vacations, you are failing your birthright.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

The next stage of intimacy after personal independence has been attained is the mutual flow of gifting, or serving each other in love

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

The direction of growth of a relationship is primarily the man's responsibility. The energy of an intimacy—pleasure,sexual flow, and vitality—is primarily the woman's responsibility. A simplified way of saying this is that the man is responsible for the woman's depth of love, or openness of mood, and the woman is responsible for the man's "erection" or energy in the body.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

If you don't know your own direction in life, you certainly will stand on shaky ground offering your woman direction. So the first step is to align your own life so that, at least in this present moment, you are living at your edge, fully aligned with your sense of purpose.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth.

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For men who have lost their sense of purpose, who don't know what their life is about, or who have trouble aligning their life with their truth, singing and dancing aren't the remedy. The cure for lack of purpose is to be challenged to live at your edge, since you have lost the capacity to live there by yourself.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

The quality of your intent and the consistency and depth of your application determine the results of your direction in gifting—as well as your capacity to guide your woman's life into greater happiness and bodily surrender into love.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

Whenever you notice that you are mulling over your own problems, knotting energy into your body as tension, take that energy and create a gift for others.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

It only takes a moment of meeting a real challenge to bring a man back to full purpose, an emergency or a threat that demands his best. And it only takes a moment of praise and deep appreciation to re-evoke a woman's radiance.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

It is not time that kills delight, but familiarity, neutralization, and lack of purpose.

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Way Of The Superior Man
David Deida
Spirituality

If you have ever tried to increase your income, or magnify your spiritual clarity, you know that the world will test you. Only through your persistence, fearlessness, and loving service does the world yield to your efforts.

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