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Barry Long Quotes

1926–2003 Australia

Barry Long (August 1, 1926 – December 6, 2003) was an Australian spiritual teacher and writer.

Australia
Non-fiction authors

Also known as: Barry long

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It is the conscious man or woman who finds the secret of happiness and contentment; and that, surely, is the ultimate success.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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

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.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The love of man and woman is the beginning of the love of God.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

To be conscious is to be consciousness: Consciousness, the knower in you, cannot be known, although it can be experienced. You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.

The Way In (2000)

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.

The Way In (2000)

YOU ARE WHAT you believe you are. You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live; or you do not believe it.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The truth every man and woman seeks is in themselves.

The Way In (2000)

Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

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.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

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.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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?

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

It is only because you are a machine that you suffer; and the purpose of suffering is to wake you up.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry Long (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.