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Quotes from Knowing Yourself: The True in the False — Barry Long

1926–2003 Australia

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The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you. If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Worry is a purely selfish expression. 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 opinion will prevent you from seeing the truth.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The Creator has to be experienced beyond the five senses and the only instrument that can experience in this way, for you, is yourself - in the state of thoughtless awareness in which you declare 'I am' and hold it.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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.

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.