Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Barry Long (Australian Spiritual Teacher)

Barry Long (1926–2003) was an Australian spiritual teacher and writer. He is the author of Meditation: A Foundation Course (1996,) an international bestseller that has been published in seven languages.

Born in Sydney, Long had little formal education. In his twenties, he became editor of The Truth (later the Sunday Mirror,) a Sydney Sunday newspaper. He subsequently worked as a press secretary in the New South Wales Parliament.

In 1964, Long experienced disillusionment with his material life that swayed him to abandon his family and his career and go to India for spiritual self-discovery. He then moved to London and worked as a sub-editor in Fleet Street. Long started his spiritual teaching in England. In 1986, he returned to Australia and taught in Queensland and New South Wales.

In his “Master Sessions,” Long advocated abandoning religious tradition in favor of direct experience and the importance of sexual love. He directly influenced many teachers, writers, and therapists, including the German-Canadian New Age guru Eckhart Tolle.

Long’s works include Knowing Yourself (1996,) Only Fear Dies (1996,) Making Love (1998,) The Way In: A Book of Self-Discovery (2000,) and My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013.)

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It is the habit of the mind to destroy the state of awareness as quickly as possible. It does this by judging, for judging is thinking.
Barry Long
Topics: Awareness

It is the conscious man or woman who finds the secret of happiness and contentment; and that, surely, is the ultimate success.
Barry Long

The truth every man and woman seeks is in themselves.
Barry 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.
Barry Long

Awareness is experiencing from moment to moment. Reason acts quickly in awareness, a thousand times faster than thought, and you do not even notice it is operating.
Barry Long
Topics: Awareness

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.
Barry Long
Topics: Discovery

Truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. 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.
Barry Long

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
Barry Long
Topics: Awareness

At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience – the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God
Barry Long
Topics: Awareness

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery – the source of truth.
Barry Long
Topics: Discovery

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