“Mistakes are equally valuable to wins—in fact, very often more valuable—because the mistake brings up a confrontation. Confrontation is often the only way the ego dissolves and the spirit learns…” – David Hawkins
“Spiritual evolution is based on the capacity of true self-honesty. Self-honesty then requires humility. Humility comes about when you see the limitation of the ego.” – David Hawkins
“Mistakes are just as valuable as wins.” – David Hawkins
There may have been some moments in your life when you felt true compassion towards something or somebody. In those moments, all your personality, who you are, what you are, everything would have melted. Nothing would have been there. You are simply there in that moment.
“If our lives are dedicated, for instance, to enhancing the welfare of everyone we contact, our lives can never lose meaning.” – David Hawkins
“….it’s by trial and error that we learn, and if the purpose of our lifetime here is to evolve, then every mistake observes our spiritual goal.” – David Hawkins
“…as you get more evolved, [a mistake] is an occasion for learning, so you become grateful for your mistakes.” – David Hawkins
“When you confront illusion with truth then subjectively the experience may be one of dismay, disillusionment, or even anger and resentment.” – David Hawkins
“Education is not a production line. It is an organic happening. You cannot create an education system independent of the society in which we exist.” – Sadhguru
“This life for me is an endeavor to help people experience and express their divinity. May you know the bliss of the divine.” – Sadhguru
“One is not stressful because of what he is doing; one is stressful because he is a bad manager of himself. He doesn’t know how to manage his own systems.” – Sadhguru
“Identification presumes ownership and authorship; thus, the ego sees and believes itself to be a personal, separate causal agent and the inferred source of its own existence.” – David Hawkins
“Devotion is of the heart—for at times, it is solely via the power of the heart and Divine love that an obstacle can be transcended.” – David Hawkins
“His or her way of being then becomes love: a love for Truth and God and a willingness to let go and surrender anything blocking the experience of this love.” – David Hawkins
“To undo the dominance of mental content, it is necessary to remove the illusion that thoughts are personal, that they are valuable, or that they belong to or originate from one’s own self. Like the body, the mind and its contents are really a product of the world.” – David Hawkins
“As we have engineered the world towards creating a convenient and comfortable atmosphere around us, we need to engineer our interiority to create a very convenient and comfortable way of existence within ourselves.” – Sadhguru
“Humor is important to the maturation process whereby we learn how to not take ourselves so seriously and to laugh at ourselves, thus decreasing narcissistic defensiveness.” – David Hawkins
“An extremely valuable insight that is learned by all spiritually evolved persons in the course of their development is seeing one’s own personal consciousness as the decisive influence that determines all that occurs in one’s life.” – David Hawkins
“The teeth of spiritual work occur when we are confronted with that which we cannot avoid. It is the direct confrontation that requires a leap in consciousness.” – David Hawkins
“The life force within you is always longing to become an exuberant joyfulness, but your mind and emotion and even your body sometimes are going in anti-directions.” – Sadhguru