113 Quotes by David R. Hawkins

When we stop wanting to be liked, we find that we are. When we stop catering to others and trying to manipulate their approval, we find that they do respect us. Self-denigration.

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.

Repression is an unconscious process by which unaccepted feelings are put out of awareness and not dealt with. In shifting attention, you make a choice not to indulge the negative emotion. You have already acknowledged and accepted the feeling within yourself as part of being human, but you are choosing to let it go because you want something higher, like peacefulness, harmony, and getting the job done. People.

From previous studies, it was learned that everyone is born under optimal conditions for karmic opportunities; therefore, it is wise to judge not, for what appears as misery or catastrophe may be the doorway to liberation for those who have negative karma to undo. Thus, seemingly catastrophic events may be the very essential and necessary elements for the evolution of the soul.

Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them.

Nothing moves or acts independently of the entire universe. In absolute concordance, all lives, moves, and has its existence in the absolute perfection, beauty, and harmony of All That Is.

The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them.

To assist spiritual progress, choose verifiable teachers and teachings and avoid those that have something to gain by one’s adherence to or alignment with them. Avoid groups or teachers that are needy, acquisitive, or controlling. The Self is completely fulfilling and has no needs and nothing to gain. The Teacher is a Servant of Truth and not its originator. All.

All of life is revealed to be a pulsating symphony of interplaying energies: “The mutual dependence and interpenetration of all things is observable as one leaves duality. Oneness is central to all of.