Here’s a relevant part of a talk he gave in 2000:

“Consciousness is always here – the light behind the life, behind the living body. You are a light. And sometimes you live very dimly, like we all do, because you are loaded, saddled with circumstances beyond your control – except that you face them as best you can. This is what being born is about. You have to carry some of the load left behind by your mother and father and all the people who preceded you. You have to take some of that negativity. Because, you see, the light of humanity has to light up. Humanity is in a dreadful mess. The light is not very bright at all, as you can see from the stupidities of us all.

Consciousness is somehow or other involved in all this whole wonderful cycle of life – living life and death – and going deeper into the psyche. This is an amazing journey. But of course you can’t know it. It would be great if you could, wouldn’t it? … If we could just snap our fingers and know it. But it’s not built like that. It’s a journey and you can’t get to the town before you’ve travelled along the road. That’s how it is.

And what is the road? The road is living and it’s a bumpy road, isn’t it? For every single person that’s born, it’s a bumpy road. Some seem to have it easier than others, but only seem to have it easier. You can’t judge anyone’s life. The billionaire, the millionaire … You can’t judge it from the external. It’s what’s going on inside, in the emotions, in the discontented body, in the pure drive of sex through every man into woman, which he has no control over whatever, except by means of love.

~ Barry Long

Edited extract from transcript of a talk at the Master Session 8 November, 2000

Unless, of course, there is something you love about it.

There is a time to move.

In my case, it was quite different, I lived in a beautiful area.

But perhaps a move could do you good if you really dislike your neighbourhood.

MOD:
eddwild, Shanti?

Yet, SD, mysteriously, the more or less organised circumstances referred to and around that process constitute our “I”.

I wrote a lot here, I guess in course of these years, about what I´m feeling sporadically re neighbouring gossiping habits which can be very awful (for the targeted), as well as cyberstalking or stalking in the streets can be quite a sickening trigger.

I´m not going to make that fuss up again at the moment here.

I just wanted to make clear that if some nightmarish stuff is happening it needs to be looked at from as many angles and nooks and corners (and personally involved people) as possible…to avoid that any conclusion is one-sided.

Otherwise, why the suspicion?

Ciao, Arpana, I agree with what you are quoting, as long as it is not just an opinion of a cynical therapist.

Your 24 hours were actually 1416 hours! What about responding, is there any time limit on that too?!