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.
BARRY LONGYou can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
More Barry Long Quotes
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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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All love – love of children, love of parents, love of God or life – comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.
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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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Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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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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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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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
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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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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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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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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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The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
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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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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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