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.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• 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.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Awareness
  • Yours
  • Richer

• All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Honest
  • Awareness
  • Self-examination

• 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.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Good
  • Deal

• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • State
  • Ground
  • Tennessee

• 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.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Power
  • War
  • Danger

• When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Awareness

• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • True
  • Inspiring
  • Awareness

• 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.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Empathy

• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Words

• I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Self
  • Awareness

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Awareness

• Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Awareness
  • Willpower

• 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.

  

  John Holt
  • Car
  • Awareness
  • Advertising

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Reason
  • Successful
  • Charisma

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Done
  • Serious
  • Study

• I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Secrets
  • Toxic
  • Leak

• There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Knows
  • Fallen
  • Chunks

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

  

  Barry Long
  • State
  • Awareness
  • Consciouness