Path to Enlightenment

12 Life Lessons along the Path to Enlightenment

by David R. Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D.

The approach to spiritual progress isn’t one of “getting somewhere,” as there is no “where” to get. Instead, you’re guided to transcend your ego and shed all illusions so that Truth stands revealed.

The sun is always shining; you need only remove the clouds.

On your spiritual journey to a higher truth, here are 12 life lessons to contemplate. It is in reading, rereading, and contemplating the meaning behind the words that one’s understanding ripens.

1.            It is not really necessary to subdue the ego, but merely to stop identifying with it.

2.            It is a relief to let the mind become silent and just “be” with surroundings.

3.            Reality becomes self-evident when the obstructions of perception and mental activity are removed, including all belief systems.

4.            The inner truth reveals itself when all other options are refused by surrender to God.

5.            When one realizes that one is the universe—complete and at one with All That Is, forever without end—no further suffering is possible.

6.            The love of God is absolute and unconditional. The sky does not “be” for some people and “not be” for others, nor does the sun shine on only a select few who have been arbitrarily chosen. God is complete and total.

7.            The Self is like one’s inner grandmother who watches over a child so he does not forget to take his raincoat or mail the rent check.

8.            It is not possible to arrive at Truth and ignore consciousness, because Truth is the very product of consciousness.

9.            To even hear of enlightenment is already the rarest of gifts. Anyone who has ever heard of enlightenment will never be satisfied with anything else.

10.        Enlightenment is the ultimate aesthetic awareness, for it allows the beauty of creation to shine forth with stunning clarity.

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

12.        In the end, it will be found that the sacrifice of letting go of the mind is actually the greatest gift one can receive.

DAVID R. HAWKINS, M.D. PH.D.

Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, spiritual lecturer, and mystic. Author of more than eight books, including the bestseller Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins’s work has been translated into more than 17 languages. Website: www.veritaspub.com

You are a spiritual being having a human experience

Unconditional Love

Unconditional love, a very rare and wonderful thing.  When we come into this world we hope to be greeted with unconditional love and if we are lucky and have a good birth and our parents are fully present we are greeted with unconditional love.  It can be pretty much all down hill from there.

We find ourselves in a world of conditions and expectations, when we should eat, when we should sleep, when we should be teething, when we should be walking; all these ‘shoulds’ and we carry these ‘shoulds’ on into our adult life.

We grow up in our parents environment, the family home they create based upon their past experiences.  As children we just want to be loved, appreciated and fit in.  Our parents write the play and we are players, if you can step off the stage and look at your family play from outside what do you see?

You may have siblings with differing qualities and attributes; if you are intellectual but another sibling has taken that ‘role’ then you have to find another role, maybe the peacemaker, or the jester.  If you are sensitive and creative but that role is taken or your parents don’t appreciate those qualities then you have to find another way to be, if you are athletic but your parents want you to be academic then you try to fit that mould.

This is a kind of conditioning that to us growing up seems completely normal but maybe not natural.  Being what we think we should be creates the secondary personality.  We have our primary personality, who we really are, and our secondary personality, what the world has made of us, the good son/daughter, the good student, the good employee, the good spouse, it’s a kind of mask.  This mask becomes our armour and though it is created for very good reasons, it limits us.

We carry our secondary personality into our adulthood and can create a whole life around it, doing a job we think we should, marrying a person we think we should, creating the family we think we should.

Sadly, if we are so identified with our secondary personality to the determent of our primary personality we can become unfulfilled, sad and confused about the life we find we have created for ourselves.

Love & blessings

Lynne