Barry Long Professions : Writer Born : August 1, 1926 Died : December 6, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 36 quotes by Barry Long Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive. Barry Long acknowledgement alive way Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being. Barry Long breaths air love-is You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist. Barry Long consciousness conscious facts Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman. Barry Long wanting-more energy littles 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 agreement truth needs I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling. Barry Long teaching life believe 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 forever time reality 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 independent love-is life 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. Barry Long breathing desire men Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly. Barry Long beautiful life long When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. Barry Long robots mind thinking No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. Barry Long education motivational men 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 self mind discovery We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin. Barry Long views facts looks You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed. Barry Long truth helping believe Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.' Barry Long drinking life lying All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything. Barry Long parent life children The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed. Barry Long existence purpose needed 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-you love-is life It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. 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. Barry Long truth gone mind Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
