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This is what the enlightened sages mean when they say,  “We are all living in an illusion.” All that we experience are our own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs projected onto the world, actually causing what we see to happen.

Most people have experienced all the different levels of consciousness at one time or another but, in general, we tend to operate primarily at one level or another for long periods of time. Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools.

Interestingly, as we said in an earlier chapter, having a pet dog can lengthen a human life by 10 years. The love, affection, caring for another being, and companionship that go along with having a dog mitigate the negative effects of stress. Love stimulates endorphins and life energy, bringing a healing balm to stress-prone lives.

Letting Go, Ch. 14, pg. 211

For added details for this passage, Dr. Hawkins had given an example of a person whose parked car had been hit, denting the bumper and fender. Depending on the level of consciousness would be a person’s reaction to the incident.

…So, life events are opportunities to grow, expand, experience, and develop. In some cases, it seems in retrospect that there was actually this unconscious purpose behind the event, as though our unconscious knew that something important had to be learned and, painful as it was, it was the only way it could be brought into experience. This is part of the psychology of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who concluded after a lifetime of study, that there is an inborn drive in the unconscious toward wholeness, completeness, and realization of the Self, and that the unconscious will devise the ways and means of bringing this about, even if they are traumatic to the conscious mind.

…Passing through a life crisis, then, makes us more human, more compassionate, more accepting and understanding of ourselves and others. We no longer have to indulge in making others wrong or making ourselves wrong. Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes. We feel a greater self-confidence, and we are willing to take greater chances because we now feel that we can handle the emotional consequences, whatever they might be.

Letting Go: Ch. 3, pg. 42-44

The universe holds its breath as we choose, instant by instant, which pathway to follow; for the universe, the very essence of life itself, is highly conscious.

Every act, thought, and choice adds to a permanent mosaic; our decisions ripple through the universe of consciousness to affect the lives of all.

…Every act or decision you make that supports life supports all of life, including your own.

Power vs Force card deck

Full text, Power vs Force, Ch. 9, Power Patterns in Human Attitudes

Everything we do and say, every movement we make, is energized by the lovingness that we have owned within ourselves.  Whether speaking to a large audience or petting the dog, the energy of love is felt to be pouring out.  We want to share what we hold in the heart as an experiential knowingness, and we hold it in the heart for everyone and everything, that they would be feeling it, too.  We pray for that inner experience of infinite love for everyone around us, including the animals.  Our life is a blessing to everything around us.  We acknowledge to others and to our animals the gift that they are to us.

Daily Reflections, Pg. 26

When the challenges come up, that’s when you need the tools. So, spiritual work then, out of love and compassion for yourself, and out of love for God, devotion to God, you develop these strengths, these capacities, this discernment. And, eventually, it’s like a knife, you can cut through anything. You can lose anything and everything, disconnect: parents, grandparents, country, lovers, wives, children, dogs, cats, houses, titles, anything! Whoosh! In an instant, it’s gone. So, that laser-like one-pointedness of mind and the willingness to cut through anything, no matter what it is, is what’s going to be needed at a later date. So, we perfect it every day. We perfect that capacity. So, that’s a form of love. All of spiritual work is a form of love. We surrender it all as a form of devotion. “Out of my love for Thee, O Lord, I let go my attachment to so-and-so. I surrender it to Thee.” The willingness to let go of anything and everything to God. In the end, you’re asked to let go all of it, even physicality. Yeah, even physicality.

And of course, the ultimate one, which we will talk about at the end of the lectures, is the willingness to give up what you think is the source of life itself. You’re asked to give up life for God. And you see that the ego is coming to its end, but you don’t know it’s just the ego; you think it’s you. And your willingness to surrender life itself as you understand it, to God, is going to require all the strength that you’ve learned. So, devotion, then, is a one-pointed, um, willingness, and it becomes tested all the time. The expression of love as devotion, then, becomes the core of many forms of devotion, whether Christianity or Zen Meditation….

…People say, “How do I know I’m going to be enlightened someday or something?” Well, I tell them, “If you weren’t destined to be enlightened, you wouldn’t be in this lecture.” Nobody who’s not destined to be enlightened would even be here. Who would be at a class on how to drive a speedboat? Only people who are going to get a speedboat; I mean, nobody else is going to be there. By definition, the people who are interested in enlightenment are the people who are going to become enlightened. I mean, that’s how you get there, isn’t it?

Karma and Devotion: The Sacred Path to God Through the Heart: Ch. 1, pgs. 22-23