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

Meaning is defined by context, which determines motive. It is the motive that establishes spiritual value.  To dedicate one’s actions as a service of love to life is to sanctify them and transform them from self-seeking motives to unselfish gifts.  We define excellence as dedication to the highest standards.  Every act can then be held as an opportunity to glorify God by sheer purity of endeavor.  All physical tasks and labor can be ingredients in one’s contribution to the world.  Even the smallest task can be seen as serving the common good, and if viewed in that light, work becomes ennobled.

How life is contextualized can bring either joy or resentment.  Begrudging is replaced by generosity.  If others benefit from one’s efforts, so much the better.  Everyone has the opportunity to contribute to harmony and beauty by kindness to others and thereby support the human spirit.  That which is freely given 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.

from The Eye of the I, ch. 5, pg. 106-107

“… love leads to the capacity for reverence for that which is intrinsic and innate within the spirit of ones’ partner. … Is romance based on first an illusion and then the illusion wears off?

… it is opposite to the way the world sees it. …when you first see that person and flash on them, that’s reality. …Then as time goes on the ego raises its ugly head and starts to demean it. But in the beginning you saw who they really were, their incredible perfection and beauty…”

from  God: Transcendent & Immanent Lecture 11/02

The substrate of all existence and creation is the state of subjectivity. God is the very essence of subjectivity. What is aware of existence is the awareness of the presence of God within us. With this realization, we resolve the spiritual conundrum of that which is seeking is that which is sought; in essence, it is the subjective searching for the subjective. The illusion that there is a dualistic set of opposites called subjective versus objective dissolves. It is the ultimate human paradox that man’s dependence on perception precludes his being able to know his own identity.

from The Eye of the I, ch. 15, pg. 289

 

The consciousness levels of Love formally calibrate from 500 and above, and by level 570, they are often considered to be saintly by virtue of unconditionality. The energy field recontextualizes all experience and relatedness to self, others, and to all life.

The obstacles to Unconditional Love (cal. 540) are attachment, resentment, specialness, and judgmentalism. The power of the high energy of Unconditional Love is transformative to self and others and precipitates the appearance of the miraculous by which the seemingly impossible is transformed into the actual. The energy of Love is complete within itself and is thus free of need, considerations, limitations, or seeking of gain. To be free of wantingness is liberating, and in some spiritual traditions, Enlightenment is termed ‘Liberation’(Moksha). In Christianity, the dissolving of the personal self into the Self of Divine Love is referred to as Unio Mystica.

from Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, Ch. 14, pg. 287-288

As we surrender, life becomes more and more effortless. There is a constant increase in happiness and pleasure, which requires less and less from the outer world to be experienced. There is a diminution of needs and expectations of others. We stop looking “out there” for what we now experience as coming from within ourselves. We let go of the illusion that others are the source of our happiness. Instead of looking to get from others, we now look to give. Others now seek to be with us, instead of avoiding us. In Charles Dick­ens’ A Christmas Carol, Scrooge experienced the pleas­ure of giving instead of looking to get from others. The joy of that transformation is available to us all. from Letting Go pg 272