Barry Long: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action. Awareness is experiencing from moment to moment. Reason acts quickly in awareness, a thousand times faster than thought, and you do not even notice it is operating.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Thinking , Time

“YOU ARE WHAT you believe you are. You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live; or you do not believe it.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Life , Suffering

“All your problems come down to love. Your love life is what your problem is, and everybody else's on earth. God in existence is man and woman. There's nothing else. And unless you have loved God in existence - your duality which is woman or man - unless you have united with that through love and devotion without going through your feelings of love, you're not going to be enlightened.”

Barry Long

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Love , Life , God , Feeling

“The truth every man and woman seeks is in themselves.”

Barry Long

The Way In (2000)

Truth

“The fact is always simple. The difficulty is in seeing it through the mind which always takes the imaginative way - until it is stilled. The mind knows it is the master in imagination and the slave of the fact. It will fight you all the way to self-knowledge. And why not? It is the only enemy.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Way , Imagination , Knowledge , Fight

“Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Truth , Falseness

“Knowing Yourself - The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Falseness

“To be conscious is to be consciousness: Consciousness, the knower in you, cannot be known, although it can be experienced. You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

“There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Life , Understanding , Reality

“You can predict exactly what a machine will do if you have sufficient knowledge of it. A machine cannot go beyond the limitations of its design. The man-machine fears death because a machine cannot see beyond its own destruction.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Death , Fear , Knowledge

“Enlightenment can't be pursued or sought after. […] Truth is here now; no past, no future. People are unenlightened only because they believe in the truth of the past and therefore must look to the rewards of the future. To be enlightened, to return to the original state of life on earth, requires action now in the present with no reference to the past. What has to be done is to kill the old priest in you, starve out the traditionalist, the follower, the believer.”

Barry Long

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

Life , People , Truth , Past

“Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Game , Waiting

“To believe what another says about you is unconscious, robot thinking. Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Thinking

“The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you. If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

God

“This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied - experiment and observe. The experiment is to ask the question; the observation is to look at yourself and see what happens. Being a science the law cannot vary. Any apparent variation is in you: you will have stepped off the way of facts into conclusions. The sun is either shining or it is not. You do not have to conclude; you just look.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Law , Way , Question , Science

“One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Knowledge

“Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it. Read in the moment and each step will take you closer to complete self-knowledge.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Knowledge , Thinking , Reading

“Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.”

Barry Long

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Love , Feeling , Knowledge

“You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Thinking

“The understanding of love comes with the knowledge that you are nothing. The greatest purity is nothing or nothingness - no thinking, no desiring, no imagining. You are then one with the moment and the great movement of life so nothing can happen that is not right. Every moment is perfect and everything that happens is eternally just.”

Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

Love , Life , Imagination , Understanding