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

To be nonattached, then, means it’s okay if it goes “this” way, and it’s okay if it goes “that” way.  If I see the parade, I will enjoy it, and if I don’t see the parade, I won’t—I won’t miss it. Neutral is a very good space in which to work at that. Neutral, you’re released from your attachments and your—your avoidance and attachments. You’re pretty free. You can either stay or leave, it’s okay. If we make it to the movie on time, we’ll watch it. If we don’t get there, we won’t go. It’s okay either way. You’re not attached: you don’t have to cry that you missed it; you don’t have to get furious that your partner was fixing their hair and you couldn’t get out the door in time, and therefore you missed the movie, or whatever. You know how life goes with people and daily bickering life: “Well, if you’d hurried up, we would have made it in time. Now they’ve changed the price, and now it’s $4.50. If we’d gotten there when it was $3.50 . . .” So, life becomes this little, bickering trivia in which you’re attached to winning and losing, and winning and losing face, winning and losing control.

So, then, at a certain point, one becomes nonattached; therefore, to win or to lose is really irrelevant. If the other person wins the argument, great. You won the argument. “Oh, you let him win the argument.” Why not? It’s fun letting people win. Did you ever do it? They cheat you out of a $1.20 and think you didn’t catch them. I let him have the $1.20. Why not? You know what I mean? What difference does it make, you know? You’re not attached to winning; you’re not attached to losing. You’re not afraid of winning and afraid of losing…

The attachments, then, which we try to relinquish are really coming out of the solar plexus. Everybody thinks sex is the base chakra. No, it’s the attachment. It’s the solar-plexus attachment to that activity and what it does for your ego and your sense of satisfaction and your sense of aloneness, desirability, your self-esteem, so it’s all the things that are piled into the meaning of that. So, we’re attached to the meaning of things, and that’s why we’re addicted to certain activities.

So, the perfect practice, then, in a meditative, contemplative kind of a practice is neither attachment nor aversion. You neither hate it, nor are you addicted to it. You don’t have to avoid it. If you’re attached to things, then you have to avoid them. You can’t have one piece of chocolate, because you know you’ll eat the whole box. I remember when I finally got off chocolate. And I’d released . . . I’d let go of chocolate for a long time, and chocolate kept coming up. Finally, I completely lost any desire, thought, or appreciation for chocolate altogether. And, I said, “Wow! I’m off chocolate. I’m free of chocolate.” I’d got unhooked from Diet Pepsi years past; now I have one can all day. So, all these things you get hooked on. I remember when I got free of chocolate; it was hysterical, because the very next night, the Course in Miracles group was coming out from New York and I had about 40 or 50 of them in the house, and they brought this huge chocolate cake! So, I didn’t have to avoid it, because I wasn’t going to get hooked by it again, so I could either have the chocolate cake or not have the chocolate cake. It was a great sense of freedom.

New! Spiritual Power and Integrity: Uncovering Reality and Realizing Peace, Love, and Divinity: Ch. 3, pgs. 74-75.

This book comprises the transcriptions of Dr. Hawkins July and August 2002 lectures.

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

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, 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.

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

This is Transcription Book 4, from the July and August 2002 lectures.

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