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David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
The ultimate reality is beyond all names. “I” signifies the radical subjectivity of the state of Realization. It is in itself the complete statement of Reality.
Reality |
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
Faith is the conviction that there is a divine reality beyond appearances.
Langdon Gilkey, fully Langdon Brown Gilkey
Idealism tends to absorb all of objective reality into a system made up solely of experience… Sooner or later the idealist has to admit that his experience touches something beyond its own content.
Experience | Idealism | Reality | System |
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
If the goal of life is to do the very best one can do at each unfolding moment of existence, then, through spiritual work, one has already escaped the primary cause of suffering. In the stop-frame of the radical present, there is no life story to react to or edit. With this one-pointedness of mind, it soon becomes obvious that everything merely `is as it is’ without comment or adjectives. The illusion of `Now’ is replaced by the reality of `Always’.
Cause | Existence | Illusion | Life | Life | Mind | Present | Reality | Story | Suffering | Work |
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
That which is `provable’ is not Reality but perception or mentation only. Reality is subjective and knowable only by virtue of identity with the known. “Provables’ belong to the classification and level of limitation and are arbitrary abstractions whose sole `reality’ is merely the consequence of selection and identification. The phenomenal is not the same as the noumenal [understood by intellectual intuition without the aid of the senses – opposed to phenomenon.]
David R. Hawkins, fully David Ramon Hawkins
Love is beyond duality; it does not need a subject or an object. It is a quality of Reality which is independent of circumstances.
Prayer… is… a technique for contacting and learning to know Reality… the exploration of Reality by exploring the Beyond, which is within.
The universe is the outward visible expression of the Real, and the Real is the inner unseen reality of the Universe.
Truth is essentially a relation between two things, an idea, on the one hand, and a reality outside the idea, on the other.
Mohammad Ḥejāzi, Moḥammad Moṭiʿ-Al-Dawla
Death is a reality in which no living creature believes.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Unless we prefer to be made fools of by our illusions, we shall, by carefully analyzing every fascination, extract from it a portion of our own personality, like a quintessence, and slowly come to recognize that we meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. This, however, is a truth which only profits the man who is temperamentally convinced of the individual and irreducible reality of his fellow man.
Individual | Life | Life | Man | Personality | Reality | Time | Truth |
Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
Because Release is a gift – a reality not earned, not merited, not attained in any way – there flows naturally from the experience of release, the experience of Gratitude. Gratitude can best be defined and understood as the only possible response to a gift, to something recognized as utterly, freely given. Gratitude is the vision – the way of seeing – that recognizes “gift.”
Experience | Gratitude | Reality | Vision |
The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Existence | Imagination | Truth |
Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
Happiness – the joy of living – comes in the experience of gratitude that flows forma vision of one’s life as a reality received, a gift given freely and spontaneously. Such a vision removes self from the center, thus healing self-centeredness by revealing the folly of the illusion of control.
Control | Experience | Folly | Gratitude | Illusion | Joy | Life | Life | Reality | Self | Vision |