Author: Veritas Administration

Lovingness is a way of relating to the world. It is a generosity of attitude that expresses itself in seemingly small but powerful ways. It is a wish to bring happiness to others, to brighten their day and lighten their load. To merely be friendly and complimentary to everyone one meets in the course of a day is revealing.

…The large area of life that is socially acceptable and open to everyone is that which is called ‘caring’. To ‘care for’ is a wide-open avenue for the expression and expansion of love. People say they cannot find love as though it were something to be gotten. Once one becomes willing to give love, the discovery quickly follows that one is surrounded by love and merely did not know how to access it. Love is actually present everywhere, and its presence only needs to be realized.

The universe responds to love by revealing its prevalence. It is hidden to ordinary perception, but the awareness is finessed by lovingness itself. Awareness is a capacity that is beyond the senses or emotions. If one ceases anthropomorphic projections and limitations, it is revealed that all that exists is innately conscious and emanates love as a consequence of the divinity of Creation.

The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, Ch. 15, pgs. 226-228 Veritas edition 

Our thoughts determine the extent to which we manifest our talents and abilities, and they set the quality and quantity of our successes and failures. But what is it that determines and influences the direction of our thoughts? As we have seen, it is our feelings that determine and produce the kind of thinking that will lead us to success or failure in any endeavor. Feelings are the key to the expansion or constriction of our talents, abilities, and actions.

Generally, we are knowledgeable and well trained in matters pertaining to the outer world. Yet we are sometimes unknowledgeable and untrained in the inner world, the world of feelings. Because feelings determine thoughts and the thoughts we hold in mind determine outcomes, it is important to clarify the relationship between our feelings and the freeing of our abilities so that they result in successful action.

Letting Go: Ch. 19, Pgs. 283-284

Special Quote from pg. 293: 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 winwin solution to every problem. They are at peace with themselves, which allows them to be supportive of the potential and success of others.

We all know that it takes courage to face fear. We champion the people who face their fear and attempt to do something about it. Such courage is one of the characteristics of nobility and makes a person truly great. Despite all of their negative programming and despite all of their fear, courageous people go forward in life, with no guarantee and not even the knowledge that things are going to get better. So courage increases our self-respect and brings to us the respect of others. We no longer need to feel ashamed.

…With courage, there is the willingness to take chances and to let go of former securities. There is the willingness to grow and benefit from new experiences. This involves the capacity to admit mistakes without indulging in guilt and self-recrimination. Our sense of self-worth is not diminished by looking at areas that need improvement. We are able to admit the presence of problems without being diminished. As a result, energy, time, and effort are put into self-improvement.

On this level, statements of intention and purpose are much more powerful and envisioned results tend to manifest. We are much more enterprising and creative, because our energies are not drained by the constant preoccupation with emotional or physical survival. Because of greater flexibility, there is a willingness to examine issues with a view to changing overall meaning and context. There is a willingness to risk shifting paradigms.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 10, pg. 156-157

Well, love, as we said, takes many expressions. Many people are here out of the energy field of love, and what they do is energized by love. Joy is a different state. Joy goes beyond love and lovingness. Love and lovingness, you can live with all the time. It’s sort of an evenness that lights up everything. Joy is more intense. Joy is more exuberant, you might say. Its energy is more—sort of swamps you. Joy sort of takes you over. One can be prone to joy, prone to joy, without being in that state all the time. You can go from lovingness, unconditional lovingness, into joy, into ecstasy.

The ecstasy is beyond description and hard to handle if you’re around people. One time I went into a state of ecstasy and. . . . There’s a chapel over here, the Chapel of Something or Other. …At one o’clock in the morning, nobody was there. The candles were all lit, and there was this beautiful music playing. And ecstasy reached such a state that the body began to dance with ecstasy. I was a pretty good dancer. The only possible way to handle it was to give it physical expression. One sort of was danced by the ecstasy of the glory of God as revealed to your own awareness. Ecstatic. Ecstatic. So, one did that to express to God one’s joy and appreciation for Divinity. One’s joy is that one has been allowed to experience the quality of Divinity experientially within one’s own capacity to experience. So, the joy is almost like an exquisite thankfulness that one has been allowed to experience the Presence and one wishes to reflect back the thankfulness and the joy at the revelation, in whatever manner you’re able to express it.

New! Just released! Karma and Devotion: The Sacred Path to God Through the Heart, Ch. 2, Pgs. 73-74

This book contains the transcriptions from the September and October 2002 lectures by Dr. Hawkins.

So, love takes many, many expressions. It takes the form of caringness.

See, we look at love as some maybe advanced state and “Oh, we’re not there yet.” No, that’s not so. Love is constant in our life, see, because nobody is completely at one level or another, see. Let’s say, well, this guy is at 125, so he can’t know what the higher levels on the Map are like. No, certain aspects of him do. And those aspects show up in certain aspects of life. So, we begin to nurture those aspects and appreciate those aspects of life in which love is taking a form not easily labeled as love. See, in our world love, you know, denotes romance, denotes here and there, denotes a ‘me’ loving ‘you,’ and a ‘you’ loving ‘me.’ And that kind of love can be lost. It can be won, or gained, or lost, or taken away from you. So that’s a different kind of love than spiritual love which is awareness of a reality that is within you at all times. So, in reality, love is a way of being in the world.

Love is actually a style, a way of being. It’s a way of holding yourself in life and every aspect of life within an overall context. And that overall context gives it a different meaning and significance, a different appearance, huh? It is just as important to polish the chromium as it is to save the life of somebody dying by the side of the street, you understand? It’s just that capacity takes this form here, it turns over the beetle that’s on its back, here it saves somebody that’s bleeding by the side of the street and calls 911; and here, it helps you in the door so you can get through, you see what I’m saying? So, it’s that capacity, that willingness to be that to the world.

…So, we see that love takes a thousand different forms, often unrecognized as what it is. As one gets more spiritually committed and advanced, you know, you begin to recognize its expression and you begin to see love everywhere. And, as you get into certain states, the beauty and perfection of all things and the constant presence of love become somewhat staggering. At that point, it may be somewhat difficult to function in the world, because everything reflects this beauty and consequently one has a tendency to break into tears. So, as you get into, let’s say, the high 500s, there’s a phase in which you cry all the time.

New! Karma and Devotion: The Sacred Path to God Through the Heart, pg. 7-8.

This is the 5th book in a six book series; the Transcriptions of the 2002 lecture series. This book comprises the September and October 2002 lectures presented by Dr. Hawkins.