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The fundamental limitation of the human mind is that it's unable to tell the difference between truth and falsehood, positives from negatives, and that which is beneficial from the harmful. Thus, we have problems in our lives and in the world. Power vs. Force provides a solution to this; a... read more
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- Bill W.: Beautifully uses AA as an example of the power of high state of acceptance versus the abject futility of trying to heal through guilt. Speaks to the idea of structured religion as an emotional governor versus as spirit lifter.
- Gandhi: Add a description of this character.
- Rowland
- Descartes
- Einstein
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“Whenever force meets power, force is eventually defeated”
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“Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of the lower levels is transcended.”
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“Facts are accumulated with great effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.”
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“Man's dilemma - now and always - has been that he misidentifies his own intellectual artifacts as reality. But these artificial suppositions are merely the products of an arbitrary point of perception.”
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“There is only one absolute truth; all the rest are semi-facts spawned from the artifacts of limited perception and positionality.”
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It isn’t life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, that determines whether such events have a positive or negative effect on one’s life, whether they’re experienced as opportunity or as stress.
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First, the desire to reach that state was intense. Then came the discipline to act with constant and universal forgiveness and gentleness, without exception. One has to be compassionate toward everything, including one’s own self and thoughts. Next came a willingness to hold desires in abeyance and surrender personal will at every moment.
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I saw that all pain and suffering arises solely from the ego and not from God.
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There are no causes within the observable world. As we shall demonstrate, the observable world is a world of effects.
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The key to Joy is unconditional kindness to all life, including one’s own, which we refer to as compassion.
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For it’s only the illusion of individuality that is the origin of all suffering— when one realizes that one is the universe, complete and at one with all that is, forever without end, then no further suffering is possible.
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Society constantly expends its efforts to correct effects instead of causes, which is one reason why the development of human consciousness proceeds so slowly.
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The basic law of the universe is economy. The universe doesn’t waste a single quark; everything serves a purpose and fits into a balance—there are no extraneous events.
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To be Neutral means to be relatively unattached to outcomes; not getting one’s way is no longer experienced as defeating, frightening, or frustrating.
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I saw how the origin of emotional sickness lay in people’s belief that they were their personalities.
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The evolution of this work, which began in 1965, was fostered by developments in numerous scientific fields-but a few of them were of special importance.
Authors & Contributors edit
- David R. Hawkins (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 155.234
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