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

…The willingness to let go the payoffs of the ego, the gratifications, the feelings of justification, the willingness to feel victorious at another person’s expense. What you have to remind yourself is, although what you’re getting out of this ego position has a certain pleasure, it is not happiness. You get pleasure out of turning the knife in somebody’s back, but you don’t get happiness out of it. So, if you let go of the pleasure of
revenge, let’s say, what you get is the happiness of being a freer,
more loving, and therefore self-loving spirit. So, there is an enormous payoff. You get back far more than you let go of.

The Evolution of Consciousness: Ch. 5, pg. 152

Note: This book contains the transcriptions from the 2002 lectures, March and April.

When faced with a  life crisis, …it does not seem like ‘Spiritual’ work.  Spiritual work is pictured as studying a textbook, looking at a picture of a guru, and singing songs.  Then an acute catastrophe occurs, and the spiritual work is bypassed.  It then resumes after all the various emergencies and tasks in one’s life have been handled.

It is as though we do not really see the essence of spiritual work.  We do not see that the spiritual work brings up these acute crises, brings us into them and that they are an opportunity.  This is where the spiritual work is happening.  The other was preparation, gathering of information and experience, deciding on direction, and accumulating spiritual knowledge. Then suddenly comes the moment of Truth, the time to do it.

Healing and Recovery, Ch. 8, pg. 249-250

Out of an unrestricted love for God arises the willingness to surrender all motives except to serve God completely.  To be the servant of God becomes one’s goal rather than enlightenment.  To be a perfect channel for God’s love is to surrender completely and to eliminate the goal seeking of the spiritual ego.  Joy itself becomes the initiator of further spiritual work.

Daily Reflections from Dr. David R. Hawkins, pg. 25.

The most obvious and visible effect of letting go of negative feelings is a resumption of emotional and psychological growth and the solving of problems, which often have been long-standing. There is pleasure and satisfaction as we begin to experience the powerful effects of eliminating the blocks to achievement and satisfaction in life. We soon discover that the limiting thoughts and negative beliefs, which we had naively held to be true, were all merely the result of accumulated negative feelings. When the feeling is let go, then, the thought pattern changes from “I can’t” to “I can” and to “I’m happy to do it.” Entire areas of life can open up. What used to be awkward or unexpressed can become effortless and joyously alive.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 16, Pg. 223

The Presence of God as Love is self-revealing as the duality of perception ceases as a consequence of surrendering positionalities. Love is therefore the doorway between the linear and the nonlinear domains. It is the grand avenue to the discovery of God.

The dissolution of the ego by the Infinite Love of the Divine Presence may be so overwhelming that the capacity to function in the world in ordinary terms may well be lost. Tears of joy can spring forth for long periods out of gratitude for the gift of spiritual vision that transforms all appearance. Beauty stunningly shines forth from all objects. The value of all ‘things’ is equal by virtue of the intrinsic Divinity of Creation as their existence.

In such a state, a leper is no longer repulsive, and the dying poor on the streets of Calcutta are beautiful and lovable. Unconditional Love pours
forth and heals their feeling of separation—such is the miracle. The Self of the devotee recognizes the Self of the dying derelict, and at this moment,
they go into a joyful bliss. All fear of death disappears where the Reality of life as God’s love shines through. Knowingness replaces thought, and the
Presence precludes all illusion of separation. The love of God is the Self of the Infinite ‘I-ness’ of existence. In the Presence, there are only stillness, peace, perfection, and beauty. The heart swells with gratitude and pours energy out into the world in response to an unseen need. The miraculous appears unexpectedly, and one witnesses the unfolding of the miracle as the Holy Spirit transforms the seemingly impossible.

I: Reality and Subjectivity, Ch. 4. pg. 336