Quotes from Barry Long

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

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.

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.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

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?'

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

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

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.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.