Barry Long
Barry Long
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer...
Barry Long quotes about
truth believe helping
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.
lying self judging
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.
past mind synthesis
Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
time thinking imagination
The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
life love-you love-is
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.
life lying drinking
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'
life past love-is
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.
life moving love-is
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.
life children parent
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.
purpose existence needed
The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
mind truth-love beauty-love
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
love-is air breaths
Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.
taught ready persons
Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
said statements
Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.