“Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.”

—  Barry Long

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: 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.

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Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926–2003

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