Barry Long
Barry Long
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer...
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Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.
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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.
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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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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 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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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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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
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You do not have to find what is true, when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will he lasting.
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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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You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.
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Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action.
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The experiment is to ask the question; the observation is to look at yourself and see what happens. Being a science the law cannot vary. Any apparent variation is in you, you will have stepped off the way of facts into conclusions.
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To go beyond reason we have to climb up the ladder of reason and go to the top of it. This will not upset reason as it is interested only in assembling the facts, whatever they might be. Reason is an ever-loyal tool; imagination an ever-failing fool.
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Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.