Category: Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins

What you hold in mind tends to manifest. Therefore, if you hold reverence for God and truth as radiance from divinity, if you align yourself with that which is verifiable truth and integrity, moral integrity, and intellectual integrity, then because you’re holding that in mind it will tend to manifest within your life. Out of nowhere arise things that increase your certainty about the validity of that which you are pursuing. Verifiable spiritual truth. There is no higher objective or purpose in living than to realize the highest levels of truth and enlightenment.

The various more-advanced spiritual states are so incredibly rewarding that whatever effort it took to reach them was more than repaid. To live in a state of gladness,  to live in a state in which you feel a compassion and a love for everyone is its own reward. So you hear the saying that virtue is its own reward. That’s really what it means – as your consciousness level advances, your degree of happiness increases. In fact, it relates level of consciousness with percentage of happiness. And the two of them are absolutely and directly related. The higher the level of consciousness, the higher the rate of happiness.

The higher the rate of happiness, the less you need from the world or want from the world. And finally you reach a state of relative independence of the world.

At times there may be a self-examination, wondering, Am I truly going in the right direction? Is a higher level of consciousness something I actually, really want? Or is it just trendy? Everybody’s into being spiritual nowadays. You’ll confront whether or not your spiritual consciousness is genuine.

In the World But Not Of It: Transforming Everyday Experience into a Spiritual Path, pg. 75-77

 

 

 

 

 

When letting go, it’s not helpful to “think” about the technique. It’s better, simply, just to do it. Eventually it will be seen that all thoughts are resistance. They are all images that the mind has made to prevent us from experiencing what actually is. When we have been letting go for a while and have begun experiencing what is really going on, we will laugh at our thoughts. Thoughts are fakes, absurd make-beliefs that obscure the truth. Pursuing thoughts can keep us occupied endlessly. We will discover one day that we are right where we started. Thoughts are like gold fish in a bowl; the real Self is like the water. The real Self is the space between the thoughts, or more exactly, the field of silent awareness underneath all thoughts.

We have had the experience of being totally absorbed in what we were doing, when we scarcely noticed the passage of time. The mind was very quiet, and we were simply doing what we were doing without resistance or effort. We felt happy, maybe humming to ourselves. We functioned without stress. We were very relaxed, although busy. We suddenly realized that we never needed all those thoughts after all. Thoughts are like bait to a fish; if we bite at them, we get caught. It’s best not to bite at the thoughts. We don’t need them.

Inside of us, but out of awareness, is the truth that “I already know everything I need to know.” This happens automatically.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 2, pg. 23-24

Out of the recognition of who we really are comes the desire to seek that which is uplifting. Out of it arises a new meaning and context for life. When that inner emptiness, due to lack of self-worth, is replaced by true self-love, self-respect and esteem, we no longer have to seek it in the world, for that source of happiness is within ourselves. It dawns on us that it cannot be supplied by the world anyway. No amount of riches can compensate for an inner feeling of poverty. We all know of the many multimillionaires who try to compensate for their inner sense of hollowness and lack of inner worth. Once we have contacted this inner Self, this inner greatness, this inner completion, contentment, and true sense of happiness, we have transcended the world. The world is now a place to enjoy, and we are no longer run by it. We are no longer at the effect of it.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender: Ch. 3, pg. 48-49

 

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