David Deida Quotes

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my readers if I suddenly stopped being so mean.

The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.

Everybody has been told already that they're too shy, too aggressive, too emotional, too reserved. They know what their fatal flaw is. They know the one thing to do to get better. But they just don't commit to changing because they feel a little bit in love with it, a little bit in love with the way they've been.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the while.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you are?" I was doing this kooky meditation at the time called inner-guide meditation, where you go into a cave and you have a guide, and you fly around. So I said to my inner guide, "Take me to the energy that's blocking me from accepting my casting" - because I understood it intellectually, but I didn't want to do it in my heart.