David R. Hawkins - Daily Reflections from Dr. David R. Hawkins: 365 Contemplations on Surrender, Healing, and Consciousness

Books

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing Is Hidden

I: Reality and Subjectivity

Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness: The Stairway to Enlightenment

Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality

Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man

Healing and Recovery

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Success Is for You: Using Heart-Centered Principles for Lasting Abundance and Fulfillment

Book of Slides: The Complete Collection Presented at the 20022011 Lectures with Clarifications

The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential

The Ego Is Not the Real You: Wisdom to Transcend the Mind and Realize the Self

Audio Program

The Map of Consciousness Explained

How to Surrender to God

Live Life as a Prayer

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Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Each step along the way to enlightenment is exciting and rewarding when its essence is revealed. Taken out of context, any critical insight can seem baffling, yet intriguing. For each seeker, there are important key understandings that light the way and facilitate success. This is a collection of such truths that serve as fulcrums for major leaps forward. Although there are many doorways to heaven, each seeker must find his or her own route.

Comprehension at great depths unravels the essential truth of seeming complexity. It is said that there are 10,000 ways to God, yet they can all be reduced to certain critical elements common to all successful pathways. Therefore, each of the accompanying quotes is proven to be of great value.

Bon voyage!
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

The destiny of the spirit will be, for better or worse, depending on the choices and decisions one makes.

That quote is one of the daily reflections in this book. Dr. Hawkins is reminding us that whatever we choose in our daily life directly impacts the destiny of our spirit. What will you choose to do today? What thoughts will you allow to circulate in your headspace today? Where will you choose to focus your attention? Those choices of inner and outer life, day by day, determine the destiny of your spirit.

Thus, we see the great value of a book like this, because it gives us a daily orientation. For each day, we have a passage to contemplate. If we make time for this daily reflection, and if we allow it to sink deeply into our spirit, then our day is pointed in a positive direction. We may fall on our face; no one is perfect. But a daily spiritual reflection helps us in that moment to get up and not give up.

Dr. Hawkins told me one time, when I asked him about the significance of his lifes work, that its like an enzyme: This information on consciousness has the power to diagnose and resolve all spiritual blocks and ailments. It functions like an enzyme of spiritual facilitation. Upon contact, this enzyme potentiates the inborn mechanisms of self-awareness and self-healing. This little book of daily reflections, then, provides the spiritual enzyme that will help you digest the phenomena of your day into something that benefits your spirit.

This comment from Dr. Hawkins reminds me of meeting with the Missionaries of Charity nuns at Mother Teresas convent in Rome. They invited us there for Mother Teresas canonization to sainthood, in 2016, at the Vatican. We toured the Home for the Poor, where they lived out their vow to give wholehearted service to the poorest of the poor. Day in and day out, the nuns live among the sick and dying, the rejected ones that no one else will care for. The place was full of love. We asked the sisters, How do you do this every day? Where do you get your energy? They told us that, every day, they have four hours of prayer, including meditation on the Word of God, Holy Mass where they receive the Eucharist, and a Holy Hour where they adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Their lives are woven with the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and this is the fuel for their work. They said: Without the daily hours of prayer and the Eucharist, it is just ourselves we give to the poor, not God.

We see that every spiritual pathway has a daily practice to keep the seeker aligned with their spirits destiny. Early on in the path, we may strive for the goals of self-improvement or reaching a high spiritual state. Then, as we go along the path, we lay down the goal-seeking of the spiritual ego (Dr. Hawkinss words). While he walked among us, Dr. Hawkins gave us a premier example of the depth of self-surrender that is the hallmark of the true sage. In this little book, he leaves his footprints for us to follow: To be the servant of God becomes ones goal rather than enlightenment. To be a perfect channel for Gods love is to surrender completely...

We pray that this book will help you, every day, to choose peace and love over all other options. Straight and narrow is the path, waste no time.

Fran Grace, Ph.D.

It is of little benefit to be personally self-critical or think that one should be farther along the road than one is. Spiritual evolution is irregular, and at times often seems sporadic and at other times stationary. Realize that guilt is a narcissistic indulgence.