Practical advice for relationships
'It is love not to go for the last word. It is love not to be emotional – because emotion is your personality gone mad. So man, no last word for you. Cut off. Don't make your point. Forget it.'
'You don't have to understand why he or she left you. He or she left you because he didn't love you enough... you must not accept into your life someone who doesn't love you enough...'
'You can't teach man anything – you women, you can only love, and that teaches him...'
'Your relationship is not all right unless you're looking at it every moment to see that it's all right and to see that it's demonstrated, that your love is demonstrated, that her love is demonstrated.'
'Sex never fulfilled a woman yet, but it satisfies her for a while. And fulfillment is what love does. Love fulfills.'
'Have you said you love them enough if you're about to die now or they're about to die, have you said it enough to your partner, to those that you love, or do you just assume...?'
SESSIONS
Surrendering to the Unnamable
Length: 49 minutes
Questions -The broader Picture
Length: 56 minutes
Barry Long guides questioners through the truth of relationships, heartbreak, self-reflection, and the nature of life, emphasising honesty and surrender.
Love between Man & Woman: How to Keep Enjoying the Other
Length: 55 minutes
Truth first: Honesty as the foundation of true Partnership
Length: 1 hours and 8 minutes
Barry Long emphasises the primacy of truth or God before personal attachment in relationships, teaching that honesty is the foundation of real love and freedom.
Feelings: Interpretations of the Present through the Past
Length: 54 minutes
Barry Long asserts that love is not a feeling, emphasising the falsehood of all feelings as interpretations rooted in past emotional experience. He challenges listeners to perceive reality directly, bypassing the habitual self and its reliance on emotion. By living in knowledge and immediate sensation, one can love truly, undistorted by the distortions of memory or fear.
Woman tends to follow her Man: A Caution / Questions
Length: 58 minutes
Barry Long warns women that they tend to follow men, urging caution before forming relationships by observing a man’s habits and integrity, especially as man’s unreliability can impact a woman’s life.
Containing Emotion, Restoring Love: Unmasking the Self’s Disruption in Modern Life
Length: 1 hours and 17 minutes
Barry Long examines how unchecked emotion undermines love and honesty, highlighting the way personal responsibility and self-mastery open the door to true relationship and healing.
Honesty first: Love without Compromise
Length: 1 hours and 20 minutes
Barry Long unveils the psychic reality of ‘the fiendess’—woman’s inherited rage at man’s loveless exploitation—emphasising the necessity for woman to contain and transmute this ancient hatred into love.
Becoming subtle: Physical Love as a Ladder to God
Length: 1 hours and 26 minutes
The talk guides listeners through the increasing subtlety required in true loving, urging a release of compromise and emotional habits to access deeper states of union and God-realisation.