To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
BARRY LONGTruth 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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All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object.
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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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Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
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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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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 all around you like the air, and is the very breath 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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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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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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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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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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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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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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