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.
behaves experience highest knowledge man possess true
The highest knowledge man can possess is that which is true in his own experience. If his experience is limited, so is his knowledge and he behaves accordingly.
conscious convert dogma help man mechanical suits tries wisdom
The man-machine will crucify any conscious man who tries to help him; and convert his wisdom into an empty, mechanical dogma that suits his own understanding.
men breathing desire
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.
mind robots problem
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.
truth agreement doe
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?.
knows
No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
energy higher no-energy
All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object
brain world mystery
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.
truth way observation
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.
truth believe helping
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.
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.