Barry Long (quotes) - Wisdom Trove

Loving is giving – giving of yourself.
Love is not a feeling; it’s a sensation.
Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.
What you want is to be free of your own wanting.
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Your object is to see yourself exactly as you are.
Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
The truth every man and woman seeks is in themselves.
Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating.
Pure love doesn’t want to get anything. It just wants to give.
No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.
While you ever have to quote another, you do not know the truth.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False. Book by Barry Long, 1983.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False. Book by Barry Long, 1996.
Woman is 100% love. Man is 90% love with ten percent something to do.
To believe what another says about you is unconscious, robot thinking.
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer… (wikipedia)
Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.
Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview. Interview with Hal Blacker, 1995.
Love is not a feeling. “What is Enlightenment”, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.
Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.
All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.
The sun is either shining or it is not. You do not have to conclude; you just look.
Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it.
The wonder is in being; not in knowing, or doing, not in understanding or observing.
You can predict exactly what a machine will do if you have sufficient knowledge of it.
Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.
Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.
What you are conscious of you can use. What you are unconscious of can use you, or escape you.
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
IF YOU LOOK at life’s totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else.
Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.
The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.
If I go deep enough into this stillness and silence inside of me, I reach a place that is called God.
What is true is only true for now – it’s always changing. The truth that is behind what is true never changes.
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.
Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.
At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience – the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
The fact is that to worry or suffer mentally you have to have an opinion. You have to say ‘That is bad in relation to me.
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.
This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied – experiment and observe.
The purpose of creation is to be free of unhappiness and enjoy life as it is now, revealing itself every moment. Barry Long
On the way to God you have to pass through beauty, pure beauty. If you do not pass through beauty it is not God that you find.
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.
Everyone has to play. The game goes on forever – or until you win. You win by finding death before it finds you. The prize – is life.
My life is a divine tautology. I am the adoration of God, by the grace of God. Apart from adoration I have no existence. I adore Thee.
You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.
The physical is external reality. The mental is our thought process – an intermediate reality. And the vital is the reality behind both.
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.
One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines.
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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.
The spiritual life is not just reading about truth or listening to it. It’s about living it. For there’s no truth, no truth on earth, unless you live it.
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
Who am I? That’s the big question of self-discovery. Too simple to ask when I set out. Too vast to encompass on the way. Too absurd to answer when I am me.
Reason is a mighty faculty but it is still below the state of awareness, of pure experiencing, which is the state you are in when you know ‘I exist’ or ‘I am’.
The highest knowledge man can possess is that which is true in his own experience. If his experience is limited, so is his knowledge and he behaves accordingly.
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.
Awareness is experiencing from moment to moment. Reason acts quickly in awareness, a thousand times faster than thought, and you do not even notice it is operating.
You will become more conscious if you use the moment of being rebuked or blamed to observe your reaction. You will observe yourself making an excuse, giving a reason.
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?.
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?’
You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity.
Energetically we are all of life that has ever been on this earth, all the trees and the flowers are energetically inside of us. What we are is utterly magnificent. Barry Long
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.
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.
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.
Meditation is purely being in the body in a continuous state of surrender, the surrender of yourself. .. This surrender has to be done now. The only time that it can ever be done is now.
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.
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.
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.
Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.
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.
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.
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.
God wants you to be free from unhappiness; for you to enjoy your life. Anything that contributes towards the enjoyment of life as a whole (and not as some temporary excitement that only contributes to the wanting) is what God wants.
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.
Shed every notion about yourself. Shed every belief. Shed every notion about love. Shed it all, as quickly as possible. Go back to being innocent. Then there’s no need to know anything; you will be informed of anything you need to know.
You are a player in the rigorous game of living. You can’t blame the game if you don’t believe the rules or bother to remember them.The first rule is: every player dies; none knows when it’s coming; the youngest and best often go first.
A common misconception about enlightenment is that once realised it’s an unalterable, static state. The enlightened man is always moving on. Each day or moment is a new revelation of truth; a continuous expansion in his enlightened being.
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.
You are given your life. The circumstances of your life are absolutely right for you. It is only our selfishness that makes us run from the circumstances of our life. We try to find another life before we’ve dealt with this one, these circumstances.
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.
Life itself is the intelligence behind the appearance of all sensory life. Life itself has to know what it’s doing, because it determines the moment my body is born and the moment my body dies. Nothing else does. There are no accidents. Life runs it all.
For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there.”
I want you to see the vastness of this existence and beyond. That’s where I’m taking you. As I stretch you with the vastness, broadness and wideness of it all, you start to become vast, broad and wide in your perception of life, love, death, God and consciousness.
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.
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.
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.
When self-knowledge reveals the answer it will be a living fact in your own experience. At any time you wish to experience the answer it will be there, just as you can say ‘It is night’ or ‘It is day’. You will know, while the rest of the world is arguing and speculating.
Life is forever, whatever forever means. Life is immortal. True spiritual realization reveals that life at any time is what is ‘here’. And not only that, but that an indescribable unlimited intelligence is also ‘here’ and making life possible. That is ‘It’. That’s enough, because that is all.
The human mind can’t stand nothing. It cannot stand looking at nothing for long. But I am asking you to look inside and see nothing. For as I see nothing, I become nothing and this is how I clear my mind. I clarify my consciousness. I take the past, the movement, out of my consciousness, by looking at nothing inside.
Do you have any love in you? Is there any gratitude in you? – for anything you have ever received? Is there any gratitude in you for this beautiful life? Is there any gratitude in you for the love you have received, all your life? You have to feel it now. You can’t remember this gratitude. Feel it now. Do you feel it?
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.
What Is Realisation? Living the spiritual life is a continuous ‘dying’ of layers of the individual’s self. With each significant ‘death’ there is an advance in consciousness, marked by a finer perception of spiritual truth and a distinct change in the persona. At the spiritual energy level the change is usually startlingly dramatic and is often referred to as realisation.
I am the subject and I am looking at nothing. Because nothing is not an object, I then disappear. You can only have ‘I’ when there is an object. And you can only have an object when there is ‘I’ looking at it. The truth is that here, inside me, in consciousness, there is no object. There is nothing … and so I disappear. That is an indescribable state called being. Don’t doubt it. Just be it.
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.
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we’ve been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.
The point of the evolution of life on earth is for each of us to become cosmic enough as cells in the great body of mankind to enter the place of cosmic or universal love… That’s what your spiritual process is. You are actually getting rid of your self and your selfishness so that you can be with this universal love, this universal intelligence, this universal truth. That’s what draws you on. And that’s why you can’t give up the process. No matter what you try to do, you must have this love. Barry Long
There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.
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.’

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