Living and life
'You are life, but you give most of your time to living. And once you give most of your time to the living you give most of your time to worry, concern, problems, and difficulties – and that's what the human race has done. And of course, we are all members of this human race, but we're not all attached to living. Very few are detached from identification with living. When there is detachment from living, there is no more worry. Do you hear me? There is no more worry.'
'Living might be hard and is hard, but life is good.'
'Living is ups and downs. Living is feeling this way today and that way tomorrow… But you are forever life. You are life before living.'
'Life is not here. Living is here, and forms of life are here, but life is not here, not in the physical world.'
'You are life, and the more that you can thank life and love life, the more you will be life and living becomes much easier.'
'My living life is only as long as it is. Where are you now? 30, 40, 50 years, 60. Your living life might end any time. But it is only the living that is finished for now, not the life.'
'Life allows you to eat your breakfast. Life allows you to get up. Life allows you to scratch your body—life, that's what you are, but the living that you are is going to die.'
SESSIONS
Climbing up the Spiral: The Imprimatur of Self-Knowledge
Length: 53 minutes
Letting Go of Unhappiness
Length: 1 hours and 3 minutes
The Power of Intelligence
Length: 1 hours and 12 minutes
What do you love?
Length: 1 hours and 18 minutes
Solar Plexus: The Way out
Length: 1 hours and 1 minute
Being Honest to Love
Length: 1 hours and 2 minutes
The Journey of Intelligence
Length: 1 hours and 8 minutes
You Can’t Change the World
Length: 52 minutes
The Only Truth is What Makes Sense to You
Length: 58 minutes
Immortality beyond Form: The Pressure of Vital Life
Length: 1 hours and 1 minute
Life is Joy
Length: 58 minutes
My Friend Life: Disidentifying from the World
Length: 48 minutes
Barry Long draws a distinction between life and living, urging the audience to disidentify from the world and its worries and instead embrace the purity and joy of life itself.