Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. Barry Long More Quotes by Barry Long More Quotes From Barry Long 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. Barry Long love-is life past Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth. Barry Long statements said Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it. Barry Long love-is life moving Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it. Barry Long taught ready persons Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God. Barry Long robots problem mind No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows. Barry Long knows 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. Barry Long observation truth way 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. Barry Long effort preparation waiting To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled. Barry Long beauty-love truth-love mind You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being Barry Long frustration levels spiritual When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. Barry Long judging self lying There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery. Barry Long mystery brain world All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object Barry Long no-energy higher energy The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty. Barry Long imagination time thinking You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost. Barry Long consciousness awareness thinking
