Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
BARRY LONGWe 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’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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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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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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The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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