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Quotes from Love is not a feeling ~ The Article — Barry Long

1926–2003 Australia

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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)

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)

Have you learned yet that every feeling is a feeling of the past and that every "good" feeling soon changes and eventually becomes the feeling of doubt, confusion, boredom or sorrow? If so, stop believing your feelings; don't act on them; wait.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

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.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Action will happen in its own time. Action taken on strength of feelings inevitably leads to more feelings to correct the action previously taken - and so the feelings of discontent and conflict, and corrective actions go on and on repeating themselves.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Andrew Cohen tells his students to be fearless and deadly serious. It takes that kind of one-pointed commitment to detach from the delusion of feelings and finally discover the blessing of the valiant; once freed of personal feelings the troublesome mind stops forever.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Attribution

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