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.
BARRY LONGYou 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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Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
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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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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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When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
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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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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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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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Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
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The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
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All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object.
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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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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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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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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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