Barry Long
Barry Long
Barry Longwas an Australian spiritual teacher and writer...
life moving love-is
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.
life past love-is
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.
life children parent
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.
life lying drinking
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.'
life beautiful long
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.
life love-you love-is
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.
life independent love-is
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.
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.
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.
challenge game moment provides
Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.
either shining sun
The sun is either shining or it is not. You do not have to conclude; you just look.
discover either knowingly means practicing ready
You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.
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.