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?’
BARRY LONGIt 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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All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object.
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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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Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
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The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
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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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When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
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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 all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.
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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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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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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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Pornography is just ‘fast-food feminine energy’, it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman.
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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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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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