Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan y — Barry Long

"Love is not a feeling; its a sensation. Drinking water when youre thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when youre tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations dont need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational."

"Okay, so you dont have drugs, alcohol and sex but you love someone, as a feeling. Then it wont be long before youll be experiencing one or more of the painful feelings Ive mentioned above - and thinking its natural! Wait and see. Even in every day living youre continually interpreting experience via your emotions instead of being the experience direct. "This is good, thats bad," your feelings swing subtly to and fro all day long obscuring the reality, the sensational knowledge or gnosis that its not bad at all; its simply life as it is."

"All feelings are false and deceptive. [...] Enlightenment is to be emptied (not empty) of feelings and thus at one with the pure sensation of divine being. And that pretty well sums up the whole spiritual process. But the spiritual process is so little understood that people dont realise their feelings are personal and false and have been misleading them all their life. If thats not true, why is humanity still unenlightened and basically unhappy after all this time - when enlightenment is the completely natural, sensational state of being every moment?"

"By disidentifying with your feelings you break your attachment to them. When that is done sufficiently youre back at the beginning, in pure sensation or unconditioned knowledge. Youve been beating your head against the wall to get some feelings and all youve got to do is break the habit and get used to living anew without pain and conflict. But thats a mighty realisation, and a mighty simple one which few are going to accept - theyll be too busy defending their feelings! So, I guess Ill still be demonstrating this the day I die."

"Incidentally, it seems to me thats why Andrew Cohen tells his students to be fearless and deadly serious. It takes that kind of one-pointed commitment to detach from the delusion of feelings and finally discover the blessing of the valiant; once freed of personal feelings the troublesome mind stops forever."

"Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware."

"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."

"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."

"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."

"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"

"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."

"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."