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

 

Now, how do you know what thoughts you’re experiencing?

Because you’re witnessing them.  You’re registering them.  So, you can move out of identification with the content of consciousness, the thinkingness, to be the watcher, the witness, the experiencer, and that already takes you one step out of it.  So, you’re no longer the victim of it. You’re the witness of it.  You’re not in the accident.  You’re a bystander.  So you move from being in the accident to being the bystander of the accident.  You’re the witness of the tragedy.  You’re the witness of the thinkingness.  You’re the witness of the self-blame.  So with a little meditation, and a little contemplation it’s easy to realize that that which you really are is the experiencer witness.  You’re the experiencer witness.  You’re not what is being witnessed. You’re not the picture on the wall, obviously. And you can’t be the memory because what you’re thinking about was yesterday and today is today, unless you can also be in yesterday and today at the same time.  Obviously, that which you are is the witness of the thoughts. What we complain about is the experience.

The Highest Level of Enlightment: Pg. 107-108

Devotional nonduality means the love for God is enough that you’re willing to surrender everything that stands in the way of the realization of the presence of divinity, which turns out not to be an “other” but the Self.  You thought it was going to be out there later.  It’s the source of one’s existence, to come to the realization, the radical reality of subjectivity.  We take subjectivity for granted.  We take the field for granted.   We take consciousness for granted.  This (Silence)  is what we take for granted.  This (content) is what we think is important.  This is what’s trivial and irrelevant, and this (Silence) is what you are.  We ignore what we are and return to focusing on that which we are not.

At this very instant, 99 percent of your mind is silent.  The reason you don’t notice it is because you’re focused on the 1 percent that’s noisy.

 The Highest Level of Enlightenment: ch. 8, pg.77  (New!)

How doe one transcend this identification with the ego?

First of all, merely to hear the truth already has an impact, whether you know it or not.  …The Buddha said to have even heard of enlightenment, you will never be satisfied with anything less, never; through all your lifetimes, you have heard it.  Everyone in this room has heard it, or they wouldn’t be here. It’s the future that’s  creating your present.  You think it’s your past that is propelling yourself from the past, that you’re being pushed by your past.  No, you’re being sucked into your future.

You’re being pulled by destiny, because by an act of the will you have already chosen your destiny, and now this is the unfolding of what is required to reach it.  That’s all.

The Highest Level of Enlightenment: Ch. 8, pg. 75

How do we cultivate more love or get more love in our life?  We can’t.

What you do is remove the obstacles to love, because love is the essence of that which you are.  …War is not the opposite of peace.  Peace is the natural condition when falsehood is removed.  So lovingness is the automatic condition when the obstructions to it, which are false and fallacious, are removed.  So lovingness becomes a way of being; love is not an emotion – It goes from here to there.  You can’t lose love.  Somebody can’t run off with love.

New! The Highest Level of Enlightenment, Ch. 12, pg. 120

…Why does the ego hangout with shame and guilt, fear, all that stuff – with greed, with desire, with lust, with hatred? Why? Because it gets a payoff. The ego mulches negativity, and it gets juice out of it. The ego survives by virtue of the juice it gets.

…The willingness to surrender to let go of the payoff of the ego allows you to let go experientially as it arises.  The willingness to let go of the payoff of grief, anger, resentment, hatred. So, what do you surrender to God in the way of surrender?  What does devotion mean? “I love thee, oh Lord, greater  than I love the glee I get out of my hatreds, my wickedness, my shame, my guilt, my revenge.” Either you love God or you love your revenge.You can’t have them both….so it’s always really a choice.

Am I willing to surrender this for the love of God or not?

New! The Highest Level of Enlightenment, Ch. 10, pg. 92-93