Speaking of love
In this episode, Barry Long explores the true nature of love, its divine origin, and its presence within every individual. He emphasizes self-knowledge—especially for women—as the key to transforming love and harmonising relationships. Ultimately, he presents woman as the hope for restoring love’s purity and guiding humanity to true love, beyond emotional attachment.
LANGUAGE: English
YEAR RECORDED: 2000
PLACE RECORDED: Cabarita Beach, Australia
DURATION: 34 minutes
EPISODE NOTES
This episode was recorded at Cabarita Beach, Australia - November 2000, at one of the longer ‘Master Session’ public meetings.
Extracts from this episode:
‘All love fundamentally is the love of That – the love of God, the love of It – That which is behind everything, behind all existence. All love is that. You have that love inside of you because you came out of that place, that vastness, into conception in some woman's womb. You came out of that place. And to that place, your consciousness and intelligence will return. So, you have that love inside of you, where there are no problems, where there is no movement, where there are no bodies, where there is no necessity for separation, because all is one, although you have an individual consciousness, you cannot separate the part from the whole. The part which is the individual consciousness is the part of the whole and, therefore, cannot be separated from it.’
‘Woman is a totally different creature to man. Woman's desire is not to possess – in her immediacy, her love is to give – her love is to give and to please man. Her desire is to give everything to him – to be able to open up completely and utterly to the male principle – that's what love is.’
‘Woman is the hope of it all – of stopping man, and how does she do this? She's got to know – 'What do I want,' 'Do I want sex or do I want love?' That's the fundamental question that's coming at you, woman’.
‘We've got to get this – that the external world is there as a reflection – as a reflector of what we are. Often, you can say the other thing – that the external world reflects as circumstances – it reflects what we are or what is necessary for us to cope with.’
‘When you love an object – this is what this external world is for – you reflect off that object; and your love reflects off that object. It doesn't reflect off this one or that one or that one; it somehow or the other resonates with that particular object. You resonate with that particular object. And there is a correspondence between the two.’
To be the truth is to be free of unhappiness