The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

by David Deida

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Contracted and closed in on yourself, you are unable to act. You are trapped in your own self-protective tension, no longer a free man.

Open the front of your body so your chest and solar plexus are not tense. Sit or stand up straight and full, opening the front of your body, softening your chest and belly, wide and free. Breathe down through your chest and solar plexus, deep into your belly. Look directly into the eyes

A closed body is unable to sense subtle cues and signals, and therefore unable to act with mastery in the situation.

For the next three days, do at least one activity a day that you have avoided or suppressed because of the influence of your father.

Your edge is where you stop short, or where you compromise your fullest gift, and, instead, cater to your fears.

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

Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.