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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.

— 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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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.

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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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