"Sooner or later, no matter how satisfying your personal life is, you long for something more, something deeper, something that fills your heart in a way that your current life does not."

-- David Deida

"You cannot arrange yourself or the world in order to experience openness, but in any moment you can simply feel open."

-- David Deida

"Love's deep openness is your source of true change."

-- David Deida

"If you practice opening now, then you add less self-created suffering to life's natural fluctuation of pleasure and pain."

-- David Deida

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

-- David Deida

"If you are waiting for anything, or anyone in order to feel more full, free, relaxed, happy, or loving, then you are wasting this moment of your life."

-- David Deida

"Live with your lips pressed up against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them."

-- David Deida

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

-- David Deida

"Every part of you knows that if you follow your highest voice you put at risk all the things that the rest of you has developed."

-- David Deida

"You always attract what you are giving out."

-- David Deida

"Separation is the act of unlove."

-- David Deida

"Nothing outside of us has the power to limit our capacity to give and receive love."

-- David Deida

"This moment is as open as you are willing to be."

-- David Deida

"It is an axiom of spiritual growth that your deepest gifts are often capped by your most stubborn obstructions."

-- David Deida

"When you are fully giving your gift, there is the feeling that there is nothing left in you as you."

-- David Deida

"Peak experiences mean nothing unless you can then use them to guide what you are practicing moment-to-moment."

-- David Deida

"If you want to change your life fundamentally, try going deeper before forcing yourself to behave differently."

-- David Deida

"Your open heart is its own reward."

-- David Deida

"Good friends should not tolerate mediocrity in on another."

-- David Deida

"It is a beautiful thing to become dissatisfied with your life because it means you have outgrown it."

-- David Deida