113 Quotes by David R. Hawkins

God is immutable and cannot be manipulated into granting favors, or seduced by bargaining or adulation. Worship benefits the worshipper by reinforcing commitment and inspiration. God is still, silent, and unmoving.

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.

There was a difficulty in considering the world of ordinary perception to be real and taking it seriously. This led to a sort of permanent capacity to see the world from a humorous viewpoint. Ordinary life seemed to be an endless comedy so that even seriousness itself was humorous. It became necessary to quell expressions of the sense of humor that some people were unable to accept because they were so deeply involved in the perceptual world of negativity.

The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.

If you think a guilty thought and have somebody test your muscle strength, you will see that the muscle instantly goes weak. Your cerebral hemisphere has become desynchronized and all of your energy meridians are thrown out of balance. Nature, therefore, says that guilt is destructive.

Determine if what we want to do is what we enjoy doing. We watch people forcing themselves to go to work in the morning because they have convinced themselves to go into some kind of business, but their heart is not in it. The way to be a success is to do what we like to do, to enjoy what we do, and, therefore, do it to the best of our abilities.

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.

Surrender is the mechanism that uncovers the true nature of our existence.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.