Barry Long
Barry Long
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer...
appearing man unhappy untruth
Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.
accept cannot judge
The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.
challenge game moment provides
Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.
absorb endeavor hold
Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it.
either shining sun
The sun is either shining or it is not. You do not have to conclude; you just look.
exactly object
Your object is to see yourself exactly as you are.
believe beyond realize words
You must not believe me. You must realize it in yourself know it, for it is beyond words and thinking. And it has to be experienced without recourse to drugs or insanity.
answers beyond discovery looks self-knowledge
Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new, it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.
beyond love mind
Love is beyond the mind because it is always new.
beyond love scholars-and-scholarship
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating.
spiritual frustration levels
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
thinking consciousness awareness
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
said statements
Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.
effort waiting preparation
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.