Barry Long Quotes
You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

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The highest state is laughter.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.
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All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
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I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
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The Internet search engines are becoming a crucial way for dealers to connect with in-market car buyers. That's why we felt it was important to sponsor this market research. We're delighted to share these results with the auto industry, to help promote greater awareness of an exciting new Internet advertising medium.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
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But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.
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Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic... It’s only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It’s there for everyone. That’s the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that’s why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic... not mine, but theirs.
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We ought to be able to have dinner every now and again without the media being there.
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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.