DEATH
'The only death or rebirth is now.
If you quit a situation or a person in order to be true to
yourself, it will be now, not tomorrow. In that moment and
all the other moments of your daily life, whenever you have
the opportunity to be true or not true to yourself or life,
you either die (to be true) or you do not die (to be true).
You either die in that moment to the person you are, or you
don’t. You either die to the ignorance that you’re
holding on to, or compromising with as yourself, or you don’t.
If you die to that personal self, if you face up to the falsehood
of it, you are immediately reborn, instantly freed of that
part of the old person or false self that you were. If you
don’t die to it, you continue to live on as the same
old person, the same old wearying problem that you can’t
escape from.'
'You are a player in the rigorous game of living.
You can’t blame the game if you don’t believe
the rules or bother to remember them.
The first rule is: every player dies; none knows when it’s
coming; the youngest and best often go first.
Everyone has to play.
The game goes on forever – or until you win.
You win by finding death before it finds you.
The prize – is life.'
From the audio tape Seeing through Death © Barry Long 1983
Books
A
Prayer for Life
The
Origins of Man and the Universe
Only
Fear Dies
Where
the Spirit Speaks to Its Own
Audio
Seeing
through Death
The
End of the World
A
Journey In Consciousness
How
to Live Joyously
The
Mythic Universe
Video
Ah,
Sweet Mystery of Death
The
Truth of Death
Articles
What
it is to Die (as I'm Seeing it)
Barry Long's Death, Dying and Insights
No, I'm Not Dead
Excellent and relevant material on Death can also be found in the following titles:
Books
Stillness
Is The Way
Raising
Children in Love, Justice and Truth
The
Way In
Knowing
Yourself
Wisdom
and Where To Find It
Audio
Gold Coast
Talks
Talks
from Tamborine Mountain 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Barry
Long's Epic Spiritual Poems
Wild
Wild Life
Into
the Depths of 'I'
Consciousness
- The Truth Within
Start
Meditating Now
Songs
of Life
Loving
the Unnameable
Video
The
Light of Self-Knowledge
The Vastness
of It All 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Abundance
Being
New
Mystery
of Truth
God
Does Not Make Mistakes
Loving
The Unnameable
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