08/11/2022
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender Quotes.
11. "Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear that drives everyone to seek security constantly."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
12. "It is said that most people spend their lives regretting the past and fearing the future; therefore, they are unable to experience joy in the present."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
13. "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."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
14. "Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
15. "choose not to buy into a negative belief system. How does this work in everyday life? Let’s take a common example. The newspapers report unemployment is at a record high. The television news commentator states: No jobs are available. At this point, we are free to refuse to buy into the negative thought form. We can say instead, Unemployment does not apply to me. By refusing to accept the negative belief, it now has no hold over our own life."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
16. "3. Escape. Escape is the avoidance of feelings through diversion. This avoidance is the backbone of the entertainment and liquor industries, and also the route of the workaholic. Escapism and avoidance of inner awareness is a socially condoned mechanism. We can avoid our own inner selves and keep our feelings from emerging by an endless variety of pursuits, many of which eventually become addictions as our dependency upon them grows. People are desperate to stay unconscious. We observe how often people flick on the television set the minute they enter a room and then walk around in a dream-like state, constantly being programmed by the data poured into them. People are terrified of facing themselves. They dread even a moment of aloneness. Thus the constant frantic activities: the endless socializing, talking, texting, reading, music playing, working, traveling, sightseeing, shopping, overeating, gambling, movie-going, pill-taking, drug-using, and cocktail-partying. Many of the foregoing mechanisms of escape are faulty, stressful, and ineffective."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
17. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way (Frankl, [1959]"
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
18. "In any situation which involves suffering, we have to ask ourselves: How long am I willing to pay the cost? What were the karmic propensities to begin with? How much blame is enough? Is there a time to call an end to it? How long will I hang on to it? How much sacrifice am I willing to pay to the other person for their wrongs, real or imaginary? How much guilt is enough? How much self-punishment is enough? When will I give up the secret pleasure of the self-punishment? When does the sentence come to an end? When we really examine it, we will always find that we have been punishing ourselves for ignorance, naïveté, innocence, and lack of inner education."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
19. "Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
20. "When we really examine it, we will always find that we have been punishing ourselves for ignorance, naïveté, innocence, and lack of inner education."
- David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender