Giving Life what Life wants

Barry Long on giving life what life wants — not through religion or belief, but through stillness, honesty, and the end of wanting. A practical talk on freedom, love, and living without unhappiness.

'Each of you is a porthole, a window into the miracle and the magic of the human psyche.'

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LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 1993
PLACE RECORDED: Gold Coast
DURATION: 2 hours and 49 minutes

MAIN TOPICS

Freedom from unhappiness, Purpose of the spiritual life, Practical advice for relationships, Emotional can of worms, Facing yourself without judgment, Living the truth being practical, Pain and suffering, Self as emotional memory, Raising children, Stop making decisions, Meditation practice, Facing the subconscious, Meditation, Psychic phenomena, Glamour, Miracles, Past lives, Ageing

EPISODE NOTES

Giving God what God wants: What do you want? What would I put before all else? – Wanting or being open to relationship – Arguments: what am I hurt about? – Partnership: individual wants and acting in union – Woman putting children before God: not giving in to sentimental love – Man alone: seeking company, knowing why – Two keys to being responsible; first key: I must not judge myself; the can of worms

Taking action – Second key: I must do what I know to be right – What is, is right; is unhappiness right? – Pain without suffering – Where there is not enough love I turn to sex; where is sex demonstrated in your life? – Barry sings a song to love – Three stages of popular songs – What monkeys look like to each other – Man grafted from the original monkey stock

World wide shortage of memory: computers – Emotional memory – Values you are concerned with and real values – I must not love my self – Loving children without indulgence – Go by the practical – Decisions and no choice – Deep dreamless sleep – Absence is the place and stillness is the way – Meditation, being, absence

Facing and going through your particular emotions – Creativity – Going into Me: into this place of absence – Unhappiness and looking into my life – Psychic ability, the occult, glamour and miracles – Are there other lives? – Ageing of the body – Enjoying my life and knowing the purpose of life




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