You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
BARRY LONGWhen 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.
More Barry Long Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
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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.
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You can’t realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being
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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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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.
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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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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
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It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.
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There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is – an amazing complete mystery.
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Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself ‘Is the statement true or false in my experience?’
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You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.
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