Importantly, level 500 indicates that the subjective condition called Love has now become not only significant but also dominant, not just as a feeling and emotion, but as the guiding principle. While the energy of Love may be focused as a consequence of interest or motive, it represents a breaking away from restriction and limitation of self-interest. Love serves, whereas ego seeks to be served in its pursuit of gain. To Love, the long-term satisfaction and pleasure of givingness replace the evanescent, short-term ego satisfaction of gain.

The energy of Love has a unique, timeless quality that gratifies potentialities that are subtle and difficult to logically describe. As Love becomes progressively spiritualized, it emerges as an alignment with Divinity, which is the ultimate source and province of Love. It thereby becomes viewed as holy, sacred, and the substance of devotion, religious faith, and mystical awareness.

From consciousness level 500 and up, the attraction of beauty, peace, and inner quietude becomes increasingly important. The spiritual principles of the great teachers become incorporated into one’s lifestyle and eventually become dominant.

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, Section Three Overview, pg. 242

The 500 Level is characterized by the development of an energy field that is progressively unconditional, unchanging, and permanent.  It does not fluctuate because its source within the person who loves is not dependent on external factors.  Lovingness is a way of being in and relating to the world and is forgiving, nurturing, and supportive.  Love is not intellectual and does not proceed from the mind; love emanates from the heart.  It has the capacity to lift others and accomplish great feats because of it purity of motive.

…Love takes no position and thus is global, rising above the separation of positionality.  It is then possible to be ‘one with another’ as there are no longer any barriers.  Love is therefore inclusive and progressively expands the sense of self.  Love focuses on the goodness of life in all its expressions and augments that which is positive.  It dissolves negativity by recontextualzing it rather than by attacking it.  As such, it is benign, supportive, and nurtures life; consequently, it is the level of true happiness.

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, Ch. 14, pg. 247-248

The effectiveness of the letting go mechanism in problem solving is quite astonishing.  Understanding the process involved here is very important, because it is quite different than the world’s usual methods.  The approach that brings fast and easy results is the following: Don’t look for answers; instead, let go of the feelings behind the question.  When we are surrendered on the feeling behind the question, we can let go of any other feelings that we might also have about what seems to be the problem.  When we are finally and fully surrendered on all components, the answer will be there waiting for us.  We won’t have to look for it.

…Let’s see how the system works with a common everyday example.  Let’s say that we disagree with our mate on which movie to see.  We look to see what the feeling is behind the problem.  In this case, let’s say that we find the feeling of anger and resentment, specifically that we feel resentful about the lack of romantic time spent together.  What we really want tonight is affectionate time spent together. As we let it be okay inside ourselves that what we really want is affectionate togetherness, it suddenly dawns on us that we don’t want to go to a movie at all.  We just want to be together.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender: Ch. 16,  pg.227-228

The level of acceptance is characterized by the attitude of selflessness and service.  This results from the surrendering of the negative feelings that create the small self, which removes our identification with it.  Instead, inner harmony and peace are experienced as the nature of our greater Self.  Because the negative programs have been relinquished, there is the emergence of greater creativity, inspiration, and intuition.

There is certainty that our own personal needs will be met; therefore, there is a shift in relationship so that the focus is on the welfare and happiness of others. This is facilitated by the fact that, at this level, there is no longer neediness in the form of dependency on other people, because there is nothing we feel we need to “get” from them.  In a relationship of loving acceptance, minor imperfections are no longer given serious importance and are overlooked.

Letting Go: Ch. 11, pg.168-169

Meaning is defined by context, which determines motive, and it is the motive that establishes spiritual value.  To dedicate one’s actions as a service of love to life is to sanctify them and transform them from self-seeking motives to unselfish gifts.  We define excellence as dedication to the highest standards.  Every act can then be held as an opportunity to glorify God by sheer purity of endeavor.  All physical tasks and labor can be ingredients in one’s contribution to the world.  Even the smallest task can be seen as serving the common good and, if viewed in that light, work becomes ennobled.

Daily Reflections from Dr. David R. Hawkins, pg. 44

 

Now, how do you know what thoughts you’re experiencing?

Because you’re witnessing them.  You’re registering them.  So, you can move out of identification with the content of consciousness, the thinkingness, to be the watcher, the witness, the experiencer, and that already takes you one step out of it.  So, you’re no longer the victim of it. You’re the witness of it.  You’re not in the accident.  You’re a bystander.  So you move from being in the accident to being the bystander of the accident.  You’re the witness of the tragedy.  You’re the witness of the thinkingness.  You’re the witness of the self-blame.  So with a little meditation, and a little contemplation it’s easy to realize that that which you really are is the experiencer witness.  You’re the experiencer witness.  You’re not what is being witnessed. You’re not the picture on the wall, obviously. And you can’t be the memory because what you’re thinking about was yesterday and today is today, unless you can also be in yesterday and today at the same time.  Obviously, that which you are is the witness of the thoughts. What we complain about is the experience.

The Highest Level of Enlightment: Pg. 107-108

Devotional nonduality means the love for God is enough that you’re willing to surrender everything that stands in the way of the realization of the presence of divinity, which turns out not to be an “other” but the Self.  You thought it was going to be out there later.  It’s the source of one’s existence, to come to the realization, the radical reality of subjectivity.  We take subjectivity for granted.  We take the field for granted.   We take consciousness for granted.  This (Silence)  is what we take for granted.  This (content) is what we think is important.  This is what’s trivial and irrelevant, and this (Silence) is what you are.  We ignore what we are and return to focusing on that which we are not.

At this very instant, 99 percent of your mind is silent.  The reason you don’t notice it is because you’re focused on the 1 percent that’s noisy.

 The Highest Level of Enlightenment: ch. 8, pg.77  (New!)

How doe one transcend this identification with the ego?

First of all, merely to hear the truth already has an impact, whether you know it or not.  …The Buddha said to have even heard of enlightenment, you will never be satisfied with anything less, never; through all your lifetimes, you have heard it.  Everyone in this room has heard it, or they wouldn’t be here. It’s the future that’s  creating your present.  You think it’s your past that is propelling yourself from the past, that you’re being pushed by your past.  No, you’re being sucked into your future.

You’re being pulled by destiny, because by an act of the will you have already chosen your destiny, and now this is the unfolding of what is required to reach it.  That’s all.

The Highest Level of Enlightenment: Ch. 8, pg. 75

How do we cultivate more love or get more love in our life?  We can’t.

What you do is remove the obstacles to love, because love is the essence of that which you are.  …War is not the opposite of peace.  Peace is the natural condition when falsehood is removed.  So lovingness is the automatic condition when the obstructions to it, which are false and fallacious, are removed.  So lovingness becomes a way of being; love is not an emotion – It goes from here to there.  You can’t lose love.  Somebody can’t run off with love.

New! The Highest Level of Enlightenment, Ch. 12, pg. 120

…Why does the ego hangout with shame and guilt, fear, all that stuff – with greed, with desire, with lust, with hatred? Why? Because it gets a payoff. The ego mulches negativity, and it gets juice out of it. The ego survives by virtue of the juice it gets.

…The willingness to surrender to let go of the payoff of the ego allows you to let go experientially as it arises.  The willingness to let go of the payoff of grief, anger, resentment, hatred. So, what do you surrender to God in the way of surrender?  What does devotion mean? “I love thee, oh Lord, greater  than I love the glee I get out of my hatreds, my wickedness, my shame, my guilt, my revenge.” Either you love God or you love your revenge.You can’t have them both….so it’s always really a choice.

Am I willing to surrender this for the love of God or not?

New! The Highest Level of Enlightenment, Ch. 10, pg. 92-93

The willingness to surrender life to God, of course, is one of the most profound spiritual tools. So people ask which spiritual tools are the most powerful. I always say humility, the willingness to surrender life, to let go wanting to control it, to let go wanting to change it, the willingness to surrender how you see things to God, then, or to some higher spiritual principle, because God is not a reality. It’s just a word to most people, a hoped-for reality but not an experiential reality to most people, until they become more spiritually advanced and begin to experience the presence of the field itself and intuit its enormous power.

And then they reverence God because they respect the infinite power that they begin to intuit. So what we can do on a practical level, then, is become the best person we can become. I’d say to become kind toward all of life in all of its expressions, no matter what. And that includes one’s self, to be willing to forgive one’s self, to see the limitation of human consciousness. I always feel that the more educated you are about the quality of consciousness, the nature of consciousness, the easier it is to follow spiritual principles. If you understand that human consciousness is intrinsically innocent and cannot control that which it’s programmed by because it can’t tell truth from falsehood, you begin to feel compassion automatically. …Once you understand the intrinsic innocence of human consciousness, you instantly are able to forgive people.

New! The Highest Level of Enlightenment, Ch. 9, pg. 88-89

 

” I go to bed at night and my mind just keeps on thinking.”

One can transcend the identification with the content of mind and it doesn’t take much effort. In fact, it’s quite easy, to really allow yourself to surrender and realize that one is the witness of the thinking, one is the field of awareness of the thinking, and identify with consciousness itself, with the realization that the higher truth is that one is consciousness itself and not the content of consciousness. Next comes the realization of what is the source of consciousness, and with the realization of the source of consciousness, one then enters into a field of knowingness, in which the knower and the known are one and the same thing. And at that point one has transcended duality and one sees there is no difference between the knower and the known, that they are one and the same.  And one realizes and becomes identified with the source of existence itself, the source of consciousness itself, and with that there arises a feeling of being at home.

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The Highest Level of Enlightenment: Transcend the Levels of Consciousness for Total Self-Realization, ch 11, pg. 106-107

A mind that is concentrated on a positive thought has the power to increase the likelihood that the positive thought will materialize in the world of events.

The most successful people in the world are those who hold in mind the highest good of all concerned, including themselves. They know that there is a win-win solution to every problem. …A feeling of personal fulfillment comes naturally from their positive contribution to the lives of others.

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For more information about this passage, go to the Letting Go book: Ch. 19, pg. 293