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.
BARRY LONGAny product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
More Barry Long Quotes
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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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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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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
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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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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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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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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
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All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object.
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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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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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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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