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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.

— Barry Long Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

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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)

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