Top 86 David Hawkins Quotes
#1. The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.
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#2. Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.
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#3. All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.
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#4. The more we love, the more we can love. Love is limitless. Love begats love.
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#5. In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with "doingness," a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself,
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#6. Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others ... At this point, the healed may become a healer.
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#7. The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.
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#8. 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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#9. The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around ... One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.
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#10. You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.
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#11. I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything
what a relief!
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#12. Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new.
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#13. The Ephors wanted to kill David," I told Blythe. "Because of his ... boy parts and stuff.
Rachel Hawkins
#14. One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.
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#15. 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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#16. You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.
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#17. Inspirational and supportive of a spiritual and reverential
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#18. 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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#19. The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
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#20. The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.
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#21. Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.
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#22. Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'
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#23. It was apparent that all of mankind is actually motivated by inner love, but has simply become unaware; most people live their lives as though they're sleepers unawakened to the perception of who they really are.
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#24. 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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#25. Since when did David Stark have biceps? How did you get any muscle tone when all you did was type and be annoying?
Rachel Hawkins
#26. I'm sure you'd hate to miss everyone's felicitations.
David had beaten me in the final round of our sixth-grade spelling bee with that word and now, all these years later, he still tried to drop it into conversation whenever he could.
Rachel Hawkins
#27. One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.
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#28. 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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#29. The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.
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#30. 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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#31. That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.
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#32. Ryan rolled his eyes. Harper, you and David Stark have been circling each other since kindergarden.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. 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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#34. The real source of "stress" is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe.
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#35. I'd been with boys before; I'd been with boys I'd thought were men. But this was different. David kissed like a man. He tasted, he smelled and he fucked like a man.
Jessica Hawkins
#36. 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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#37. The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.
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#39. 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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#40. All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
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#41. Just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.
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#42. God, I might actually choke on these words. I trust you. And I wanna check this out, but I'm not stupid enough to go check it out myself, and I think I might... need you." - David
"E-mail her. Make an appointment. And I'll... I'll go with you." - Harper
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#43. A few weeks ago, if you had told me that being held in David Stark's arms was one of the nicest things I'd ever feel, I wouldn't have laughed at you. I would've been too busy choking on my own horror.
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#44. 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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#45. I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for "menacing." I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.
"What?"
"Just ... that's embarrassing for all of us," he replied.
Rachel Hawkins
#46. I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.
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#47. The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.
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#48. After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious.
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#49. In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.
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#50. Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.
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#51. 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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#52. the person who has arrived at a habitual state of unconditional love will find anything less to be unacceptable
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#53. The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level.
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#54. The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them.
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#55. The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.
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#56. Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together.
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#57. To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.
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#58. All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.
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#59. Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.
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#60. Of all the men, and ashamedly, that included Bill, David was the one who I felt in my core, as though I only existed as an extension of him. I wanted to fall just so he could catch me.
Jessica Hawkins
#61. 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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#62. God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'void-ness' prior to form.
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#63. We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
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#64. 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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#65. Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want.
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#67. Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies?
Jessica Hawkins
#68. Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
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#69. 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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#71. We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
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#72. feelings are programs; that is, they are learned responses that often have a purpose.
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#73. Guilt is really self- condemnation and self-invalidation of our worth and value as a human being.
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#74. Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
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#75. 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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#77. We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.
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#78. The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.
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#79. The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.
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#80. Pain tells us that we have put our survival onto something that is a violation of some principle of consciousness.
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#81. I know," I told him. "It sounds insane. It is insane."
His eyes fixed on mine. "You killed someone," he said, his voice barely audible. "With a shoe."
"He had a sword," I fired back and then, to my shock, David burst out laughing.
Rachel Hawkins
#82. If by 'graciously volunteered,' you mean 'was threatened and coerced,' then yes, I did,
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#83. 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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#84. Where is this?" I asked. It wasn't a continent I recognized. David looked up from gathering a pile of laundry. "Oh. Um, that's Middle Earth.
Rachel Hawkins
#86. 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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