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 LONGNo religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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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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Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.
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Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
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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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Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.
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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
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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.
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The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
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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.
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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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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
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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.
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less – waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
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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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