35 Inspirational David Hawkins Quotes On Success

David Hawkins was a professor whose interests included the philosophy of science, mathematics, economics, childhood science education, and ethics. He also served as an administrative assistant at Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, and later as one of its official historians. Together with Herbert A. Simon, he discovered and proved the Hawkins–Simon theorem. May these David Hawkins Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.” David Hawkins

2. “Pain tells us that we have put our survival onto something that is a violation of some principle of consciousness.” David Hawkins

3. “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 Hawkins

4. “It is not what we have that matters, but how we hold it, how we frame it in our consciousness, and its meaning to us.” David Hawkins

5. “We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” David Hawkins

6. “Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.” David Hawkins

7. “The only way to enhance one’s power in the world is by increasing one’s integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion.” David Hawkins

8. “If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed.” David Hawkins

9. “Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.” David Hawkins

10. “Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.” David Hawkins

11. “The door to enlightenment is through the deep honesty of unknowingness.” David Hawkins

12. “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.” David Hawkins

13. “Truth is verifiable only by identity with it, and not by knowing about it.” David Hawkins

14. “We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.” David Hawkins

15. “There is a scientific basis for the observation that self-awareness is increased much more rapidly by observing feelings rather than thoughts. The thoughts associated with even one feeling may literally run into the thousands. The understanding of the underlying emotion and its correct handling is, therefore, more rewarding and less time-consuming than dealing with one’s thoughts.” David Hawkins

16. “The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them.” David Hawkins

17. “Greatness is the courage to overcome obstacles.” David Hawkins

18. “love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.” David Hawkins

19. “Fear of the future no longer exists when the past has been healed.” David Hawkins

20. “We hang on to pain. It certainly satisfies our unconscious need for the alleviation of guilt through punishment. We get to feel miserable and rotten. The question then arises, “But for how long?” David Hawkins

21. “The person who suffers from inner poverty is relentlessly driven to accumulate on the material level.” David Hawkins

22. “The degree to which we have not allowed ourselves to experience the reality of our true self is represented by our resentment toward those who have actually done so.” David Hawkins

23. “The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.” David Hawkins

24. “Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want.” David Hawkins

25. “Handling an emotional crisis leads to greater wisdom and results in lifetime benefits. Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.” David Hawkins

26. “You can’t do a good job unless you’re keen on it yourself.” David Hawkins

27. “Wallowing in guilt is feeding the ego and is an indulgence. Therefore, there has to be the willingness to surrender it.” David Hawkins

28. “You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It’s the neediness that’s the problem. Instead, become that with attracts those things.” David Hawkins

29. “In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.” David Hawkins

30. “With humility comes the willingness to stop trying to control or change other people or life situations or events ostensibly ‘for their own good’. To be a committed spiritual seeker, it is necessary to relinquish the desire to be ‘right’ or of imaginary value to society. In fact, nobody’s ego or belief systems are of any value to society at all. The world is neither good nor bad nor defective, nor is it in need of help or modification because its appearance is only a projection of one’s own mind. No such world exists.” David Hawkins

31. “Every life experience, no matter how “tragic,” contains a hidden lesson. When we discover and acknowledge the hidden gift that is there, a healing takes place.” David Hawkins

32. “Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools.” David Hawkins

33. “Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear that drives everyone to seek security constantly.” David Hawkins

34. “Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact, he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is experienced through the senses; power can be recognized only through inner awareness.” David Hawkins

35. “Human progress is evolutionary, and therefore mistakes and errors are inevitable. The only real tragedy is to become older but not wiser.” David Hawkins

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