David Hawkins
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.Collection: Uplifting
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.Collection: Giving
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.Collection: Ignorance
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.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Love
Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.Collection: Joy
Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'Collection: Causes
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.Collection: Teacher
The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.Collection: Development
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.Collection: Pet
We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Levels
Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.Collection: Healing
The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.Collection: Personal Development
The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.Collection: Goal
...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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Light
The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.Collection: Choices
Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Life
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.Collection: Truth
All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.Collection: Intense
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.Collection: Understanding
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.Collection: Education
You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Void
The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.Collection: Pain
The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.Collection: Cash
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.Collection: Mean
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.Collection: Rejection