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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/the-more-you-observe-life-in-relation-to-yourself-the-more-you-will/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

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## More by Barry Long

> [Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/love-is-all-around-you-like-the-air-and-is-the-very-breath-of-your/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/no-religion-knows-the-truth-only-he-or-she-who-lives-it-knows/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/we-can-rarely-see-things-from-the-point-of-view-of-another-person/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/the-more-you-observe-life-in-relation-to-yourself-the-more-you-will/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/you-can-t-realise-love-or-yourself-until-you-are-still-enough-to-drop/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/love-is-the-state-of-enlightenment-and-enlightenment-is-the-state-of/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/no-man-can-teach-another-self-knowledge-he-can-only-lead-him-or-her/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/the-only-way-we-can-ever-get-through-to-the-truth-is-by-finding-out/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/to-experience-beauty-love-truth-and-peace-or-god-your-mind-has-to-be/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/the-whole-purpose-of-existence-is-to-bring-love-into-existence-where/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/any-product-of-the-mind-is-a-reaction-of-the-past-a-synthesis-of-what/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/nothing-is-true-in-self-discovery-unless-it-is-true-in-your-own/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/anything-that-is-said-is-not-the-truth-it-is-a-statement-of-truth-and/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [We are the intelligence that has evolved in time out of the space and matter of the solar system, and specifically the earth¦](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/we-are-the-intelligence-that-has-evolved-in-time-out-of-the-space-and/)

[Barry Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-long/)

> [When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-long/when-you-observe-yourself-you-must-not-condemn-or-approve-what-you/)

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