“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)

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Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926–2003

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