Waiting to Love...(rude) Essays on Life After Spirituality

by David Deida

"Waiting to Love is David Deida's most challenging book yet. These essays heartfully expose the misunderstanding commonly encountered on the spiritual path that awakening is always about feeling good. True freedom is the art of relaxing right now, surrendering open to the present moment and all that it may contain -- this is the fire of real love, spontaneous liberation, and lasting transformation. Dive into the flames with Deida and find out who you really are." David Deida is the author of The Way of the Superior Man.

217 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

About the author

David Deida is an American author who writes about the sexual and spiritual relationship between men and women.[1] His ten books have been published in 25 languages. He conducts spiritual growth and intimacy workshops and is one of the many founding associates at the Integral Institute. He has conducted research and taught classes at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Lexington Institute in Boston, San Jose State University and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books on human spirituality including The Way of the Superior Man, Finding God Through Sex and Blue Truth and the autobiographical novel Wild Nights.

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a collection of essays by David Deida about... love. He uses profanity in some of the the essays (be warned) but as always, he's challenging his readers to be more open, to love more fully. Some of the essays are just mind bending in analyzing the nature of truth and being, but the theme is always the same. How can you open you heart more in whatever circumstances you find yourself or you create. Period. Openness. He dares to FEEL it all. He's unafraid of the pain, and loves through it. It's incredibly courageous, and after the years I've spent reading his words and working with him and his associates, it always comes down to the same thing: Opening your heart courageously, and feeling life and loving anyway. Instead of curling inward upon yourself in fear, you open courageously and love. This book is VERY challenging, and most people I know would not enjoy it. But it is a good attempt to convey the basic heart opening concept of living that he believes in.

[Teresa Zimmermann · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Art of an Open Heart

The most profound and moving words about The Big Why. So fundamentally resonating, if intuitive emotional inclusion has overruled the pure search for contentment. A highly complex perspective in a very tangible, practical and intimate form. This is art.

In short: what is love, what does love contain (as in emotions, beliefs, actions), and how can we love on a universal level.

Personal delight: this book transcends the Newtonian Universe. It is written from a Quantum Perspective.