Barry Long Quotes

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

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.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

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.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

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.

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 g.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

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.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

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.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

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

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.