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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.

— Barry Long Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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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.

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

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