"You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed."

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Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

Barry Long

#Effort Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Preparation Quotes

“Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value cannot be ascertained because the transaction is not made by private parties exchanging their own resources in a market setting.”
“A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.”
“Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!”
“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”
“I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.”
“I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.”
“Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there”
“You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.”

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