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 LONGNo religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object.
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Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
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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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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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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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’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 think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
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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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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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When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
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