Barry Long on helping
Barry Long30 quotes“You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.”
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Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
Barry LongBarry Long Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
Barry LongBarry Long We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.
Barry LongBarry Long You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
Barry LongBarry Long The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
Barry LongBarry Long Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.
Barry LongBarry Long Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
Barry LongBarry Long Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can’t make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.
Barry LongBarry Long Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.
Barry LongBarry Long Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
Barry LongBarry Long Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
Barry LongBarry Long WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
Barry LongBarry Long Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.
Barry LongBarry Long No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
Barry LongBarry Long All love – love of children, love of parents, love of God or life – comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.
Barry LongBarry Long When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.
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It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.
Zig ZiglarZig Ziglar There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai LamaDalai Lama We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
Charlie ChaplinCharlie Chaplin Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
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