Barry Long Quotes (46 Quotes)


    We are the intelligence that has evolved in time out of the space and matter of the solar system, and specifically the earth

    The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.

    The truth is that once you discover something is false you lose interest in it.

    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.

    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.


    Man conscious is man immortal. Man conscious gives to the creation as no other thing can give and is beyond death. But it is no use my just saying this. You must discover it, realize it for yourself.

    It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

    You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

    Many mystics have said, and it is true, that anything you see is not God. Anything you think is not God, neither are visions, lights, moving objects or anything else. Any sensation or feeling is not God. They are all the products of the creation or your imagination.

    Love is beyond description but not beyond demonstrating.

    Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.

    You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live or you do not believe it.

    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.

    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.

    This is too simple for the brain to comprehend in its now chronically complicated condition.

    It is by grace that I live, it is by grace that I am speaking now, it is by grace and grace alone. And that grace empties the vehicle of what it needs to be emptied of.

    On the way to God you have to pass through beauty, pure beauty. If you do not pass through beauty it is not God that you find.

    You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

    Read in the moment and each step will take you closer to complete self-knowledge.

    To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

    For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there.

    IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else.

    Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.

    No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

    Beauty stands at the gate of the kingdom of heaven. It is of the Creator, but not the Creator and it is all-mighty.

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

    The failure to give and receive is followed first by unconsciousness and then death.

    The understanding of love comes with the knowledge that you are nothing.

    Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.

    Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.

    Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God.

    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.

    This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied - experiment and observe.

    Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.

    You can predict exactly what a machine will do if you have sufficient knowledge of it.

    You don't gather knowledge when you are getting to know yourself you lose it..

    Worry is a purely selfish expression.

    WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

    The fact is always simple. The difficulty is in seeing it through the mind which always takes the imaginative way - until it is stilled.

    You do not have to find what is true, when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will he lasting.

    The fact is that to worry or suffer mentally you have to have an opinion. You have to say 'That is bad in relation to me.

    A machine cannot go beyond the limitations of its design. The man-machine fears death because a machine cannot see beyond its own destruction.

    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.

    You will become more conscious if you use the moment of being rebuked or blamed to observe your reaction. You will observe yourself making an excuse, giving a reason.

    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.

    The man-machine will crucify any conscious man who tries to help him and convert his wisdom into an empty, mechanical dogma that suits his own understanding.


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