
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Blaming others or ourselves is simply not necessary.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Therefore, rather than enthusiasm, quiet observation will serve you better.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
If our mind, by its decision, has the power to make negative things happen in our life, then it has equal power in the opposite, positive direction. We can choose all over again. This time we can choose the positive. We can cancel the old programs, and we can do that by beginning to relinquish the gratification we were getting out of the negative p
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For negativity to apply to our life, we must first subscribe to it and, secondly, give it the energy of belief. If we have the power to make negativity manifest in our life, obviously our mind also has the power to make its converse come true.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
You become progressively primarily the witness rather than the experiencer of phenomena.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: “It’s okay if it happens, and it’s okay if it doesn’t.” When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments. We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence on anything or anyone outside of ourselves. These principles are
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Don’t look for answers; instead, let go of the feelings behind the question.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Without being conscious of what money means to us emotionally, we are at the effect of it.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
The mind doesn’t like to hear it, but in reality most “I can’ts” are “I won’ts.” The reason the mind doesn’t want to hear this is because “I can’t” is a cover-up for other feelings. These feelings can be brought to awareness by posing the hypothetical question to oneself, “Is it true that I won’t rather than that I can’t?