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

Once the experience of peace has occurred, we are no longer a victim of the world. We are no longer at its effect as we once were, for we have had a glimpse of the truth about it and of what we really are.

With continual surrender, we begin to experience these states of peace with ever-increasing frequency. At times, they may become quite profound and of greater and greater duration. When the clouds are removed, the sun shines forth and we discover that peace was the truth all along.

Surrender is the mechanism that uncovers the true nature of our existence.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender: Ch. 13, pg. 188

Knowing our own and everyone else’s human foibles gives rise to forgiveness and thence to compassion.

Compassion is the doorway to Grace, to the final realization of who we are and why we are here, and the ultimate source of all existence.

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*Added text to give deeper context to the above passage, from Power vs Force Book, Ch. 23, pg. 305:

The initial effect of taking responsibility for the truth of one’s life is to raise lower energy field levels to 200, the critical level at which power first appears, and the stepping-stone to all of the higher levels. The Courage to face truth leads eventually to Acceptance, where greater power arises at the level of 350. Here, then, there is sufficient energy to solve the majority of man’s social problems. This, in turn, leads to the yet greater power available at 500, the level of Love.

Everyone has the opportunity to contribute to the beauty and harmony of the world by showing kindness to all living things and, thereby, supporting the human spirit. That which we freely give to life flows back to us because we are equally part of that life. Like ripples on the water, every gift returns to the giver. What we affirm in others, we actually affirm in ourselves.

Once we become willing to give love, the discovery quickly follows that we are surrounded by love and merely didn’t know how to access it. Love is actually present everywhere; its presence only needs to be realized.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, Ch. 12, pg. 172-173

Unconditional Love, then, is the capacity to be in love—it’s really “in love with life.” You’re driving along and all of a sudden, you feel a surge of joy. You’re just sort of in love with life itself. And, at 540 you pretty much fall in love with everybody and people who belong to 12 -Step organizations know what that’s like. You leave judgmentalism at the door and everyone is unconditionally loving to the best of their ability. It leads to a saintliness, saintliness, and it brings you into Serenity, Joyfulness, a feeling of completion – and God is Infinite Love. The joy of life is that the Source of that life is the Love of God. That takes you into sort of an exquisite state, which is transfiguring. 540 is transfiguring. Your inner life is one of serenity. Although your emotions may jump around, they’re not who you are, because the persona, the personality which interacts with the world is not who you are; and along the way with spiritual work, you realize that it’s not what you are anyway—why are you wasting time with it ? It doesn’t need anything, and you could drop it any time, you know what I am saying. “Why don’t you drop that?” “Yeah, okay,”. So, it’s not who you are, because if it’s who you are you’re not going to drop it no matter what, because that’s intention. But emotionality can come and go and doesn’t need anything. Even a saint can get annoyed with something. It doesn’t mean he’s not saintly, but if you ask him if he believes that, he doesn’t believe that. It’s just the animal talking.

New! The Evolution of Consciousness: Navigating the Levels of Awareness and Unlocking Spiritual Potential, Ch. 2, pg.53-54.

In our discussion of the levels of consciousness, we noted that one of the downsides of Pride is denial. Every mind engages in denial in order to protect its supposed “correctness.” This begets the fixity and resistance to change that prevents the average consciousness from advancing much more than five points in a lifetime. Great leaps in level of consciousness are always preceded by surrender of the illusion that “I know.” Frequently, the only way one can reach this willingness to change is when one “hits bottom,” that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat of a futile belief system. Light cannot enter a closed box; the upside of catastrophe can be an opening to a higher level of awareness. If life is viewed as a teacher, it then becomes just that. Unless the painful lessons of life with which we deal are transformed through humility into gateways of growth and development, they are wasted.

We witness, we observe, we record apparent processions of experiences. But even in awareness itself, nothing actually happens. Awareness merely registers what is being experienced; it has no effect on it. Awareness is the all-encompassing attractor field of unlimited power identical with life itself. There is nothing the mind believes that is not fallacious at a higher level of awareness.

Power vs Force: Ch. 20, pgs. 265-266