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KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

— 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.

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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.

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