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My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography Paperback – 30 June 2013
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This posthumous autobiography tells the story of Barry Long's life from his early years in Australia to a career as a successful newspaper editor and then how successive spiritual crises and realizations made him into a spiritual master who changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. It is a candid and sometimes painfully honest account of transformation by love and the transcendental. Liberation or spiritual freedom is not gained by trying to be like everyone else. Liberation is to have the will, the power, the simplicity to be what you are from moment to moment, without pretence and without considering what you or others think you should be or should not be. Naked of being anything, you must stand, and stand alone.
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Barry Long (1926-2003) was a spiritual master recognized worldwide. His spiritual realization began in the late 1950s and was provoked by radical self-inquiry independent of any religious tradition. He began teaching in London a decade later in the 1960s. By the 1990s he was traveling the world speaking of love, life, truth, death, and God. A writer by trade, his many books cover every aspect of living and the spiritual life, although he is best known for his teachings on love between man and woman. His work has been published in eleven languages. In his later years, he returned to his native Australia where he continued to teach and write until his death in 2003.
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Publisher : Barry Long Books (30 June 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 456 pages
4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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Barry Long (1926-2003) was a writer and spiritual teacher with an original and challenging way of communicating age-old truths.
Born and raised in Australia he started out as a junior journalist and became the youngest-ever editor of a Sydney Sunday tabloid, somewhat prophetically called 'Truth'. At that time spiritual truth was far from his mind, but in his early 30s, the ambitious and successful family man began to question all his values. For some years his inner pain and suffering increased. Eventually, in 1965, he fled Australia and went to India. After many adventures, alone in the Himalayas he experienced what he called a 'mystic death', or the realisation of immortality. This was the real beginning of his journey towards 'the unfathomable mystery of God or Life and that other divine mystery of true love between man and woman'.
He wrote of his insights and realisations and for thirty years gave talks and seminars in many countries. He inspired and guided many thousands of men and women without wanting to create a big organisation or attract personal fame. He was concerned with the individual, not society. He taught that the way to truth and the reality of love is through direct experience, not belief or imagination; and that freedom comes from taking responsibility for one's own life. He was fulfilled by the prospect that one day someone might hear the truth from him and be able to live it. Evidently very many did. His legacy may be seen in their lives and in the work of some of those he inspired, including other teachers, notably Eckhart Tolle.
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Anna Mazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoy travelling with a Master along the Way (before he was a Master)Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 May 2017
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This is an extremely rare account of a Master "on the path" *before* he became a Master. Read about a normal human being (and all his faults and frailties) and enjoy his travels and experiences. Why is it rare? Two reasons: one is that once Mastery is achieved, the past is left behind (and hence never gets talked about), and two: very few people have the fore-sight or ability to diarise their travels well (so we're lucky that his journalistic nature made him keep diaries).
I had the pleasure and honor of being with BL on many occasions, and loved him as a Master; I'm glad he wrote down his thoughts along the way for us to read. Note that the contents of this book is very unlike any of his meetings, talks or other books as it's from a personal perspective and not his "teaching". I found myself enjoying his easy writing style, and wished that I'd seen more of it.
The only downside is that it ends many years before his departure, and before I first met him, so I'm keen to see the next part of his life in a sequel (please!).
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Reader99
5.0 out of 5 stars More than a good readReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 July 2013
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This long awaited autobiography of Barry Long was certainly worth the wait. It is the story of Barry's great love of god, truth and woman. I am now reading it for the third time. It is the story of the life circumstances of the man who to my mind was one of the greatest teachers of our times. Many of the stories in the book have already been told at his meetings or in his other books but the autobiography tells more of the day to day and year to year life of the man and the process he went through in becoming the teacher that was Barry Long. It also tells some of the stories of those who lives intertwined with his and heard his teaching and like most autobiographies it also has photos of the author as a child and at points in his life. It includes Barry's later reflections on events in the light of the truth he had realised. I can recommend this book to anybody who has any love or yearning for truth, even if they have not heard of Barry Long before. As well as the story of Barry's life it is also a book of truth. I give the book ten glorious stars! Thank you life.
Note: This book covers his life up until the death of his second wife in 1982. Maybe a second volume will be published....
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Altair Anjilo N. de Almeida
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerfully moving. Profound autobiography of a Western Spiritual Master.Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 March 2015
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Barry Long was my first Spiritual Master,and his autobiography was long awaited by me and many, many others around the world. I was privileged to have been his student from 1985, in Hampstead, London when there weren't so many people at his meetings. He was the most direct and confronting,yet compassionate teacher I have come across. This book, for me read like a novel. It is brilliantly written, by a master wordsmith. I couldn't put it down! The only difference and a major one at that, was that he was recounting his own experiences, not making up stories. This book only served to make me admire him more. It also taught me that we can never pre-judge what path a persons life may take. He was an ordinary kind of family man, with a good job, when suddenly things began to change. The call from within or without began, at a time when there weren't many Spiritual teachers to guide his way. However, as he would say, Life, Love or God will always guide you to the Truth, when the desire for it is there. For those called to the spiritual path, or even for those confused or confronted by Life or living, this book could be a turning point, an uplifting one, yet one that does not sugar coat the Spiritual journey. This was his journey.We must all make our own, yet this profoundly touching book will add fire and hopefully give you courage to face the 'demons' that arise and must be faced, if we want to live a full and honest life.
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Tai Xen
5.0 out of 5 stars MUST READReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 August 2015
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This is a MUST READ for those familiar with BL. Quite surprising in many respects. I was disappointed that it only took his story to the early 80s as I first met him in the mid 80s, and of course he died in 2003.
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BigBear
5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary readReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 April 2018
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Honest, profound, at times disturbing, but finally uplifting. Highly recommended to anyone who meditates and / or is seeking to develop spiritually.
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