Tributes to Barry Long from around the world

Over the years Barry Long received many letters of love and gratitude.
Extracts from some of the most recent are published below.

'What you have done on this earth is magnificent’
Australia

‘I must acknowledge that the beautiful circumstances of my life have largely come to being because of the great self-knowledge and presence that you have evoked in me through your love and your teaching. I am realising a life I could not have dreamed! Your love and great intelligence have greatly helped to transform my life. Your teaching and life’s work have worked their magic and wonder in me.’
Australia

‘Since I was about 5 years old I remember telling myself: “They don’t know. They don’t know.” I didn’t know what they didn’t know until about 40 years later when I came to your teaching.’
Finland

‘If ever there was a king, a true and nurturing fearless man who has been holding up the space and vision for humanity to grow up, it's been you.’
Australia

‘Your presence has been the most meaningful, powerful and wonderful thing in my life. I thank you now and forever . . . The truth that has been shown to me continues to reveal itself . . . The stars will always speak your language to me and the universe sing the absent song, that you taught my ears to hear.’
Germany

‘I thank you with all my heart, that you made it possible for me to recognise the real woman of love in me.’
Holland

‘I will never stop thanking God for what you have done, for what you are, my living truth speaking the words that take me home and fulfil my point of existence.’
UK

'Through you I have found my love and I can never return.’
England

‘Seven years ago I wrote a note to God saying, "If I am ready to meet a Master please show me the right one for me." A few days later one of your videos turned up. I took it home, watching it with tears of joy all over my face and just knew . . . I am so very grateful ever since.’
New Zealand

‘Your love has awakened in me such sweet joy and delight, love of beauty, nature and God in others, deep nothingness, simplicity, and quiet joy.’
Australia

‘I am deeply grateful for all the love and truth I have received from you. It has allowed me to become more and more the woman that I am, and not to compromise in love anymore.’
USA

‘You have reminded me of my innocence - before all the layers that I have piled upon myself. The depth of your teaching continues to fill me with wonder. You are indeed master.’
England

‘I thank you for your ruthless truth.’
USA

‘It is most beautiful to see God in anyone, but to us you have been a real Western Master. Man of Love and Truth in everyday life.’
Finland

‘You have given me everything I need to go forth and lead a life free of unhappiness – for this I thank thee with all my being. I love thee.’
Cyprus

‘You gave me much more guidance than my real parents.’
Netherlands

‘Thank you for bringing me to life, to the life I am.’
England

‘I am so grateful for the practicality of your teaching Barry. It is with absolute brilliance that you are able to communicate incredible vastness and down to earth practicalities at the same time. I am given the tools I need to see the facts, discern, be responsible, take action, and otherwise to be still, contained. I love it. It is such grace and inspiration to be showered in thy light; the honest, direct communication is utterly refreshing.’
Australia

‘If it was grace that led me to pick up a book of yours years ago in the library and grace that has had me hang upon your words ever since, then I am blessed among men.To encompass the heavens and the earth, to talk such sense that sense itself is quiet, to sing the beauty of man and woman and bird and butterfly and bring poetry and practicality together in the knowledge of all; no man can do more.
My praise is but ignorance of thee but here it stands. I salute thee, heroic man, divulger of the gnosis, lover of God.’
Australia

‘You are the man I most respect. Thank you for telling the truth of love, God, death and life. I’m deeply touched by your wisdom. My life with my woman is so good – paradise-like, and blessed with plenty of honesty, joy and love and beauty. This has lasted now for years. Thank you. I am to all eternity blessed for what I have received and I know it to be a blessing for the rest of my life.’
Finland

‘I wish to express my deepest gratitude for your extraordinary contribution to humanity. It is a privilege beyond all description. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Let all that thou art be declared from the rooftops.’
Ireland

‘What you say and are has penetrated my being. I see love and glory everywhere, and in me, where even ‘I am’ not anymore, but something vast and intelligent is, is the centre of it all. When I look around in nature, I see straight into the mystery, into that eternal energetic wonder. The wonder of wonders is that on the every day level I am still the absolutely same ordinary woman with the same talents and weaknesses except no emotion, no trouble, no fear in love, no jail. I love you – but that love is no more particular, no more holding onto your form when you have to disappear into this great oneness of everything. Glory, glory! PS You are the greatest hero I know.’
Finland

‘Thank you for everything I have received from your teaching which has enabled me to live my life in an unimaginable way, for my mind could never have imagined living life like this without you. There is so much joy and love and it seems to get better and better.’
Ireland

‘I write to you in gratitude for all I have received from your teaching and your presence. Time and again its integrity is revealed to me and I see that without a doubt it is utterly right. The beauty in my life is in my consciousness, as much as it is, because you have shown me that. And I thank you profoundly for showing me that love has a purpose.’
Australia

‘I have received more from you than I can possibly articulate. Thank you for your teaching – so comprehensive and practical. Thank you for giving and giving in such humility. My life has become more simple. I remain in contact with the wonderful stillness you’ve inspired.’
Australia

‘Since I started living your teaching nine years ago, totally unpredictable events have turned my life inside out, removing all the props, fears and conditioning, and have made it a constant miracle. The biggest miracle is my relationship with a truly loving man. We have been together ten years and the honeymoon still goes on. In fact, it is getting better and better all the time as we are both getting deeper and deeper into love and getting rid of our emotions. My life has become incredibly simple and truly beautiful. I know that I am privileged to have been introduced to your teaching.’
England

‘So often during the day I find myself saying ‘thank you, thank you . . .’ and knowing that life is good. I am much more in a steady, still place, where I know gratitude and goodness for/of the whole, and the little things that occur around me. I listen to your tapes, watch your videos and read your books and deeply love the truth I recognise and the openness and indescribable beauty of life.’
England

‘Thank you for all your love and giving. I am deeply grateful for all I have received. It sets me free.’
England

‘There is more life and love in me because you have been here in existence. The teaching and the love that you are ripples out far and wide. It occurs to me that it has even shaped who my daughter is. Whenever she stays over with other families, we are always receiving feedback about how enjoyable and easy she is to be with.’
Australia

‘Through your teaching you have given me a new, pure, beautiful life.’
Switzerland

‘You gave me the most precious thing in my life: life and love.’
Switzerland

‘No words can really express my gratitude to you. I thank you for showing me the way, for bringing me closer to God. Your teaching is the most wonderful Art on Earth.’
Switzerland

‘You are one of my heroes. You are a great inspiration.’
Australia

‘Due to you and your teaching my life is ever good now. I’m never really unhappy or shaken anymore, because I know what is happening in my life, thanks to you. Never in doubt nor bewildered anymore. I’m forever changed and my realisation of Love and Truth – and my love of God – increases every day. And I know this applies to many others, who live your teaching.’
Denmark

‘I must write my gratitude to you for your profound, honest and most beautiful teaching. You, your teaching, your great truth and love, will be always with me in eternal gratefulness and love. Loving woman rightly is and always will be the greatest challenge and fulfillment of my life.’
Holland

‘Thank you, Barry, for the Divine life I am able to live because of you. God bless you, Barry Long, for being on this earth and giving so much. You have guided my life and you have brought me to a state of unchanging and indescribable joy. I love thee.’
England

‘I love the unspeakable magnificence and immaculate excellence of your teaching, the beauty of which is astounding. To have been taught by you is to have been truly loved.’
England

‘It has been a blessing that a piece of the indivisible appeared as Barry Long.’
Australia

Thank you for all the things you have said and done over the years to help me realise this wondrous state of consciousness I am (in) now. I am still within, and conscious of simple beauty and sweetness. And the miracle is that I see the manifestation of this simple beauty and sweetness without in its own time and rightness. God’s will be done and I am grateful.’
Malaysia

‘There is no more that a man can do for his fellow man and woman than what you have done. And in what a beautiful. gracious and courageous way you have done it! To meet you and have the pleasure and honour to see you again and again and to live your teaching was the best thing in our lives.’
Germany

‘I see the clear drop of water that falls into the ocean and makes the sea in which we are united somehow. You have made the drop clear and I cannot thank you enough for that.
The purpose of life is to give and love, to be responsible for it. I love my man and I am prepared to do what is needed to keep the love between us pure. The awareness that I am responsible, only I, for love, life and death, is a great gift and knowledge which I have received from you.’
Netherlands

‘My life has changed profoundly more than words can express… You have inspired me to become what I am. How can words capture such gratitude and love?
England

‘To see and hear a man who loves God as you do has been profoundly good. I can never thank you enough for your presence and your teaching. You’ve continually affirmed and awakened me to the wonder, the majesty, the integrity and the goodness of life.’
Australia

‘You have restored the love of woman on earth – to name only one thing . . . We have learned to go beyond our emotions and know a love that is just beautiful. You have helped us to discover the purpose of our love which makes it a divine love. We already have a taste of paradise on earth – and that is due to you and your great love, Barry.
Being in your presence was always a blessing for us.’
Germany

‘Your whole teaching is such a blessing but the thing that helped me most is to put love first. You made me realise what love is and what it means to put love first. Without this my partner and I could never be together.’
England

‘Wherever I go I have it in me: the reflection of the Master Consciousness.’
Denmark

‘For me you’ll always be great: a great and meaningful part of my life and a great inspiration.’
S Europe

‘I am a lucky woman to have heard of you, to have met you and to have had the opportunity to be with you all these years . . . I can never thank you enough for this great privilege to have the guidance of the master that you are.’
Netherlands

‘Thank you for your impersonal, self-destructive love. Thank you for showing me God, thank you for showing me woman, her love and how important she is. Thank you for changing my whole living life. Thank you for showing me the truth behind so many things, in existence and out of it.’
Australia

‘Your teaching has helped me enormously with my living life and my parenting and care of my daughter. Guiding her to see what emotion is - to see through it and not always live from it - has been one of the greatest gifts I as a mother could share.’
Australia

‘If it were not for you, Barry, and the wonderful blessed truth of love and life and God that you revealed to me, I’m sure I would still be floundering in ignorance. Since I first came into contact with your teaching, my life took a turn for “home” and I was filled with relief that at last my life had taken on some real meaning and purpose. The journey was and still is awesome, Barry’.
Ireland

‘You put the spiritual life within the reach of this woman as I made the practice of gratitude, which you suggested, part of every moment and situation in my life. Now it rises up, unbidden, and fills my being.’
Ireland

‘I am eternally grateful for that which I have received: the equilibrium, the love, the stillness, beauty, all things which are right and true. It is beautiful . . . I am more ready than ever to love, for you have imparted a great truth to me of the knowledge and love of the female.’
Australia

‘It is a loving God which gave you to me and slowly brings me back to itself.’
Germany

Your depthless love of the female principle and your revelation of the truth and purpose of this purifying time (of menopause) deeply nourishes me.’
England

‘Your teaching has changed me fundamentally as a woman. As I am not enlightened yet, I am still dissolving emotions and past and the possibility of these things entering me is still there. I have to be very vigilant and tests come. Yet I would like to state that I am not insecure, doubtful, self-judging or emotional any more. Nor can I be manipulated by man. And I am no longer afraid of his sexuality. Yet I don’t hold anything against him. How could I? If he is to blame for his ignorance, so am I.
I want you to know that you and your teaching have changed me. It’s been done here.
I am in a state where I never doubt my own knowledge of my realisations of what love is. I know what I don’t want and what hurts. And the hurt has entirely stopped within me. No man can hurt me any more because I always see what is going on. He can’t get near me, if he is not right. I’m out before he knows what happened. I am entirely responsible. Yet I am open to man. I am very attracted to man. I often see behind his appearance into the void of blackness where I perceive love. When that happens I let it happen. I am grateful to look into that beauty. I know I love Him behind all men. God smiles through Me to Him, when I see Him.
. . . I know at least one fine man here on earth who has shown me what Man really is. I have been shown His pure love and nobility! What Man really can be! The Principle of Man I love so dearly! And that is you, Barry.’
Denmark

‘I wanted to report to you Barry that I have realised that I have no problems, not in Me or in My life or with My Woman. This is truly a blessing and a privilege. This coming after I realised that My Life consists of possibilities alone. Moment to moment.’
Sweden