Thoughts & quotes from Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. & Susan Hawkins – Page 5

Certain Things Merely to Hear of Them Already Begin to Accelerate One’s Progress

So, in this lecture, our purpose is to see how can you transcend duality.

…The various techniques about which I’ve written, and about which we’ve lectured and which all of you have studied…Certain realizations seem to potentiate that transformation that transcends the limits of the ego, so that instead of being an obstacle, it begins to serve you. Certain things, merely to hear of them already begin to … accelerate one’s progress. If we say, nothing is—it’s not possible for anything to cause anything else; everything is manifesting its infinite potentiality by the grace of Creation which is continuous: just that knowingness, that thought is already powerfully transformative.

Let’s see what the calibration of that thought is…The thought has the power of 920. That’s the level of the truth of the thought. To merely hold that in mind, then, and to give it a certain reverence which we give to all Truth, then empowers that thought, which then sort of goes through your mind and …cuts off a whole bunch of circuits. See what I mean? You, like, let it loose in this syncytial nightmare we call the brain, and it runs around on its own now and begins to disconnect switches. Because causality is not what accounts for “That Which Is”; then the mind automatically increases, expands its context, and begins to try to sense what it is.

All that we look at, then, is content. As you mature spiritually, you look less and less at content and look more and more at context. One begins to sense the field in which that thought is occurring. Again, you see, as you expand context, the context itself is limited by certain definitions. And you start letting go of the definitions. Eventually context becomes the Infinite Presence out of which the entire universe manifests—the Unmanifest manifesting itself as the manifest, which is the source of Creation in which we experience existence.

Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 4, pg. 91-92

This book is a new release, the transcriptions from the July and August 2002 lectures by Dr. Hawkins

Become the Shepherd of Your Own Sheep

To “become the shepherd of your own sheep,” then, means to acknowledge that all the subpersonalities within you, the child in you, the adolescent, all those things that still are there, are now your responsibility, and because you’re awake now, because you’re awake—more awake than the rest of them within you—you have to become the shepherd that guards the innocence of the sheep within you. Yeah. You take responsibility. You take responsibility now and say, “I recognize that my mind can’t tell truth from falsehood. As a consequence…as a consequence I will not put myself in a position where that naivete can lead to deleterious results.” You know what I’m saying? It’s like not throwing your pearls before swine. I never cared for the language of that, but you have to take responsibility now for what you allow yourself to be programmed by.

…Take responsibility, to be the shepherd of your own sheep. And that is the awareness that within yourself, within the various archetypes, the subpersonalities, is still the programmable; … And to watch what you’re being, to be aware.

Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 2, pg. 39-41

This book contains the transcriptions from the July and August 2002 lectures presented by Dr. Hawkins.

The Infinite Stillness

The infinite stillness, behind whatever sounds we hear in the room, is your Self. Without the infinite stillness of your Self, you wouldn’t be able to hear anything. Without the infinite context of nonform, you would not be able to experience form. Because of the voidness of the Presence, one experiences form, experiences existence, is aware of what the mind is up to. So, we don’t want to be scared of mind. We want to handle mind the same as we did the animal. We love mind. It’s not our enemy. It took evolution billions of years to develop this incredible thing here, which I now–because I want to realize the Presence of God, …becomes an obstacle.

Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 4, pg. 94

Transcription Book 4 from the July and August 2002 lectures.

The Willingness to Love No Matter What

So, the willingness to love, no matter what, is really a pact you’re making with God. Really a pact you’re making with God. “I choose to be with Thy Will, O Lord, and love unconditionally.” So, this is a choice, made by conscious decision—not out of logic, but because you’re already evolved enough that that contract is now compelling. You realize it’s going to have a big cost. You realize it’s going to make a cost. Anybody who chooses to be unconditionally loving knows in that contract, it’s going to be a price. All that which is unloving is going to come up to be surrendered. On the other hand, you now get assistance from dimensions from which you never got assistance before. Let’s see if that’s so: “We have permission to ask this question.” [True.] “What I just said is so.” [True.] Oho! See, the contract has now brought in powers from other dimensions which you did not have before.

New! Spiritual Power and Integrity: Uncovering Spiritual Reality and Realizing Peace, Love and Divinity, Ch. 5, pg. 137

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“One’s Devotion to Truth Transcends All Obstacles”

…People are always asking in letters, you know, “How can I advance myself spiritually?” And the basic essence of it is always the same, and that is one’s devotion to the truth. One’s devotion to the truth transcends all obstacles. Let’s see if that’s a fact: “That’s a fact-resist.” [True.] One’s devotion to the truth then overcomes all obstacles.

And sometimes people will write a letter also that they don’t understand certain things, and because there’s such a huge volume of letters, they can’t all be answered.

And so, what we generally say, then, in a letter, that almost—over 90 percent of the questions that are being presented resolve themself with a little further reflection of the information that’s been provided.

It takes a certain amount of time to grow, you know what I’m saying? And a lot of times, people will come up with a question that, you know, took me 20 years of meditation to even get to the edge of that answer, and he wants it tomorrow, you know. I say, “Well, now . . .” Hmmm. So, there’s a certain maturity, a certain . . . in other words, the growth factor—you know, the growth factor—and each person evolves at their own rate of development. And that rate of development is absolutely correct for that person.

So, therefore some preparation of spiritually advanced work has to be done to become an intense spiritual aspirant.

This passage is taken from the New Transcription Book 4 , from the July/August 2002 lectures : Spiritual Power and Integrity: Uncovering Spiritual Reality and Realizing Peace, Love, and Divinity, Chapter 1, Pgs. 14-15

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