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The truth every man and woman seeks is in themselves.
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If God exists, God can be experienced; but only by you.
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Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.
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Before you can escape from your burrow you must know you are trapped. Then there's a chance.
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Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware.
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It is only because you are a machine that you suffer; and the purpose of suffering is to wake you up.
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Nothing is true unless it is true in your own experience. This is your protection against being duped or misled.
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Reasonable acceptance, our way of living, is imperfect. But God, if God exists, must be perfect and beyond reason.
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At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.
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Knowing Yourself - The true in the false, gradually strips away all self-delusion until all that remains is pure being.
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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.
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It is the conscious man or woman who finds the secret of happiness and contentment; and that, surely, is the ultimate success.
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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?
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You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.
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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.
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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.
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YOU ARE WHAT you believe you are. You live, enjoy life and suffer according to that belief. What you believe, you live; or you do not believe it.
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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.
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Sex is excitement, seeks satisfaction and soon loses interest - selfishness. Making love is passionate, fulfilling and does not look for an end - selflessness.
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Reason is a mighty faculty but it is still below the state of awareness, of pure experiencing, which is the state you are in when you know 'I exist' or 'I am'.
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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.
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Your object is to see yourself exactly as you are. Self-knowledge is the discovery of the new: it looks beyond the world that has all the answers and no solutions.
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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.
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Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it. Read in the moment and each step will take you closer to complete self-knowledge.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else. The failure to give and receive is followed first by unconsciousness and then death.
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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.
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When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Barry Long
Born:
August 1, 1926
Died:
December 6, 2003
(aged 77)
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