On letting go - Dr David Hawkins

On Completely Letting Go           [Dr. David Hawkins, I: Reality and Subjectivity]

"People wonder, "How does one reach this state of awareness," but few follow the steps because they are so simple.

First, the desire to reach that state was intense. Then began the discipline to act with constant and universal forgiveness and gentleness, without exception. One has to be compassionate towards everything, including one's own self and thoughts.

Next came a willingness to hold desires in abeyance and surrender personal will at every moment. As each thought, feeling, desire, or deed was surrendered to God, the mind became progressively silent. At first, it released whole stories and paragraphs, then ideas and concepts. As one lets go of wanting to own these thoughts, they no longer reach such elaboration and begin to fragment while only half formed.

Finally, it was possible to turn over the energy behind thought itself before it even became thought."