Top 38 David R. Hawkins Quotes
#1. Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want.
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#2. The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion.
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#3. Behind all of the "I can'ts" are merely "I won'ts." The "I won'ts" mean "I am afraid to" or "I am ashamed to" or "I have too much pride to try, for fear I might fail." Behind that is anger at ourselves and circumstances engendered by pride.
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#4. Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together.
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#5. Although the world may be stingy and hostile to other people, there is no reason why we should buy into this paradigm. When we buy into it, we make it that way in our own life.
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#6. The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them.
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#7. The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level.
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#8. The readiness to react with fear, for instance, depends on how much fear is already present within to be triggered by a stimulus. The more fear we have on the inside, the more our perception of the world is changed to a fearful, guarded expectancy.
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#9. In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.
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#10. If it weren't for the negative programming that made us believe otherwise, why should we go through any cost of pain and suffering to achieve anything in our life? Isn't that a rather sadistic view of the world and the universe?
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#12. One's fate, obviously, will either be for the better or for the worse, depending on the choices made by the spiritual will.
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#13. Pain tells us that we have put our survival onto something that is a violation of some principle of consciousness.
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#15. Real love is unconditional love. Unconditional love is a decision we make within ourselves. The process is one of intention and the decision to be a loving person. If I decide to love you, that is my inner decision. There is nothing the other person can do about it.
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#16. Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
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#17. Guilt is really self- condemnation and self-invalidation of our worth and value as a human being.
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#18. feelings are programs; that is, they are learned responses that often have a purpose.
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#19. We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
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#21. Repressed and suppressed feelings require counter-energy to keep them submerged. It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses.
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#22. The real source of "stress" is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe.
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#23. The body can discern, to the finest degree, the difference between that which is supportive of life and that which is not.
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#24. Inspirational and supportive of a spiritual and reverential
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#25. we hang on to pain. It certainly satisfies our unconscious need for the alleviation of guilt through punishment. We get to feel miserable and rotten. The question then arises, "But for how long?
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#26. I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything
what a relief!
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#27. If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed.
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#28. In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with "doingness," a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself,
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#29. The more we love, the more we can love. Love is limitless. Love begats love.
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#30. Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new.
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#31. All of us have available at all times a computer far more advanced than the most elaborate artificial intelligence machine - the human mind itself.
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#33. The insensitivity comes with self-excuses, such as: "I am an upfront person who speaks my mind," or "I am the frank type; you always know where you stand with me." These comments are a cover-up for insensitivity, which might be better described as gauche.
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#34. The degree to which we have not allowed ourselves to experience the reality of our true Self is represented by our resentment toward those who have actually done so.
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#35. Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.
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#36. The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.
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#37. Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools.
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#38. Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.
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