Barry Long
Barry Long
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer...
life believe teaching
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.
thinking mind robots
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
littles wanting-more energy
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.
way alive acknowledgement
Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.
apparent ask cannot experiment facts law science stepped variation
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.
change fact false observing truth
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.
beyond climb imagination interested ladder might reason top upset whatever
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.
absorb endeavor hold
Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it.
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.
gone hold innocent life mind needing
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.
chain facts fixed linking notice observe plan proposed reason
Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action.
accept cannot judge
The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.
appearing man unhappy untruth
Nothing makes man more unhappy than the untruth appearing as the truth.