Clergyman's

Knowing Yourself - The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.
- Barry Long

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.
- Barry Long

You will become more conscious if you use the moment of being rebuked or blamed to observe your reaction. You will observe yourself making an excuse, giving a reason.
- Barry Long

The fact is always simple. The difficulty is in seeing it through the mind which always takes the imaginative way - until it is stilled. The mind knows it is the master in imagination and the slave of the fact. It will fight you all the way to self-knowledge. And why not? It is the only enemy.
- Barry Long

You don't gather knowledge when you are getting to know yourself; you lose it. Many of your firmest ideas go out the window. You may feel naked, vulnerable, threatened, argumentative, angry.
- Barry Long

To listen, to learn, your mind has to be still. Have you ever observed that you can have only one thought in your mind at a time?
- Barry Long

Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.
- Barry Long

You don't gather knowledge when you are getting to know yourself; you lose it. Many of your firmest ideas go out the window. You may feel naked, vulnerable, threatened, argumentative, angry.
- Barry Long

To listen, to learn, your mind has to be still. Have you ever observed that you can have only one thought in your mind at a time?
- Barry Long

Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.
- Barry Long