The truth is that you can open as every moment, exactly as painful or pleasurable as it is. You are open as the entire moment now or to some degree closing—unwilling to feelingly breathe all into your deep heart and offer all wide open to infinity—therefore suffering your tension, waiting for future fulfillment or release.

This dissatisfaction occurs because you are not opening.

Unwilling to surrender, refusing to be lived open as the entire moment, feel yourself closing in fear. Don’t pull back from fear, but feel your fear as love’s current shape. Occupy the feeling-shape of your fear.

Even when you try to help others, your clench communicates itself along with your efforts. People may benefit from your actions, but in the process they are also rippled by your clench.

It is much harder to live the truth than to feel it or know it. Knowledge is easiest. The mind is more malleable than the emotions or the body, and so the mind is relatively swift to change.

If you have a more masculine sexual essence, it is easy to spend hours, days, even years totally engrossed in the tasks at hand. Like a monk in prayer, your life can become devoted to the image of your salvation: the discovery, realization, creation, or achievement that will set you free. But if you ever have attained your goals, you know that the

The feminine moves and breathes as life. Shines as every shade. Opens as every flavor. The feminine is unbounded as life. Alive as love, dancing as all bodies, the feminine opens as all.

Wide open, you can offer without holding back, you can receive without pushing away.

How could you dance through the years so that even as your body ages and withers, your heart opens ever more full, as wide as the moment, shining as love’s radiance to all?