“Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.”

—  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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