Clergyman's

The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
- Barry Long

The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
- Barry Long

One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines.
- Barry Long

KNOWING YOURSELF means being able to separate the true from the false in yourself - love from emotion, joy from sentiment, Will from desire. No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
- Barry Long

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.
- Barry Long

Have you learned yet that you only suffer when you think about events or feel about them, that you don't suffer from events themselves? Have you learned yet that every thought about yourself is a thought of the past, that worry is thinking and that all thinking eventually leads to worry, fear and insecurity? If so, each time you go to think, or catch the thinker thinking even about ""good"" things like last night's movie, don't; stop. Not because Barry Long says so but because you've realised the truth of thinking in your own experience. It's what you've learned from life, not from someone else's experience. Therefore it is the truth for you now and every moment. Otherwise you must go on thinking and go on suffering. One day, when you've had enough of the pain, you'll come to your senses. Have you learned yet that every feeling is a feeling of the past and that every ""good"" feeling soon changes and eventually becomes the feeling of doubt, confusion, boredom or sorrow? If so, stop believing your feelings; don't act on them; wait.
- Barry Long

Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.
- Barry Long

Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.
- Barry Long

Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.
- Barry Long

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.
- Barry Long