It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one’s self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one’s way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are alright as they are, and all problems are caused by other people’s selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world.
—David R. Hawkins
Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you’re friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Reflection
With spiritual work, the terms ‘is’ or ‘are’ become progressively replaced by the term ‘seems to’, which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Perception
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Legacy
Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever-moving energy fields of life, leaving a permanent record for all of time. This realization can be intimidating when it first dawns on us, but it becomes a springboard for rapid evolution.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: People
The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Journeys
All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Judging, Judgment
Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Generosity
The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of ‘I know’ and the devaluation of people who are ‘not spiritual’. Therefore it is important as a foundation to spiritual training and education to learn how consciousness manifests as the ego and its mechanisms.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Spirituality
When peace is more valued than the entertainment of the insatiable ego, it will be discovered to be ever present and available.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Peace
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.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Love
Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind’s vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth.
—David R. Hawkins
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Power, Genius, Knowledge, Great
You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It’s the neediness that’s the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Desires
Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Kindness
Success isn’t something you have to get, its just the automatic consequence of integrity. If you’re the best carpenter around, you don’t have to advertise.
—David R. Hawkins
Topics: Success & Failure
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