“Frustration results from exaggerating the importance of desires.” – David Hawkins
“To be prone to “hurt feelings” is egocentric and a form of social paranoia. When we admit our downside and learn to laugh at it, we are no longer vulnerable to slights and insults.” – David Hawkins
“True asceticism is simply a matter of economy of effort. It is not possessions themselves but the presumed importance or value projected onto them that is significant. Therefore, it is recommended that one ‘wear the world like a loose garment.'” – David Hawkins
“When you fine-tune yourself to such a point where everything functions so beautifully within you, naturally the best of your abilities will just flow out of you. When you’re happy, your energies always function better. Do you see that when you’re happy you have endless energy?” – Sadhguru
“Yoga definitely works for everyone. Let this be clear. Yoga is a technology, so there is no question of it working for one person and not working for another.” – Sadhguru
“Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.” -Sadhguru
“If the atmosphere that we live in makes us, we cannot call ourselves managers. If we make the atmosphere that we live in, only then we can call ourselves managers.” – Sadhguru
“Malice literally makes us sick; we are always the victims of our own vindictiveness. Even secret hostile thoughts result in a physiological attack on one’s own body.” – David Hawkins
“We change the world by what we have become and who we are, and we thereby can become a blessing to the world.” – David Hawkins
“Do what you can to become as perfect as you’re capable of doing and that way, you improve everyone around you including yourself… the world benefits. The whole world benefits by your efforts.” – David Hawkins
“Once you understand it, compassion is automatic. You can’t help but be compassionate because you see the truth of what goes on.” – David Hawkins
“To realize the innocence of the inner child of everyone who exists, it gives us a capacity to be forgiving towards all people no matter what.” – David Hawkins
“The mind’s computer can become programmed with falsehood easily.” – David Hawkins
“To realize the presence of God requires no thinkingness whatsoever. In an instant, the mind is transcended.” – David Hawkins
“The way you become successful is you become like those who are successful.” – David Hawkins
“The ego has you convinced that without the ego you will die and that it is the core and source of your life.” – David Hawkins
“You see, the minute you get even or get even with them or conquer them etc., you now have the Karma of that. If somebody falls over, it’s better that they do it on their own accord than you putting a bullet in them.” – David Hawkins
“To have peace of mind… let go wanting to get even.” – David Hawkins
“The mind translates phenomena in 1/10,000th of a second; thus, the mind is like the playback monitor of a tape recorder. When that interface of mind between phenomena and experiencing dissolves, the difference is quite dramatic.” – David Hawkins
“The human mind, by virtue of its innate structure, is naïve, blind to its limitations, and innocently gullible. Everyone is the victim of the ignorance and limitation of the human ego.” – David Hawkins