The pathway to Enlightenment via radical truth is demanding and requires the surrendering of all belief systems. Only then does the Ultimate Reality reveal itself as the sought-after “I” of the Supreme. The Eye of the I, Introduction, 2001

Question: Where does one begin the search for spiritual truth self-realization called enlightenment?
Answer: It is simple. Begin with who and what you are. All truth is found within. Use verified teachings as a guide. The Eye of the I, S. 175, 2001

In the Reality of nonduality, there is neither privilege nor gain nor loss nor rank. Just like a cork in the sea, each spirit rises or falls in the sea of consciousness to its own level by virtue of its own choices, and not by any external force or favor. Some are attracted by the light and some seek the darkness, but it all occurs of its own nature by virtue of divine freedom and equality. The Eye of the I, S. 262, 2001

The ego puts up resistances and it struggles for survival. Therefore, when its proclivities arise, they should be viewed as a sign of success and not of failure. Instead of dismay, the surfacing of the ego's resistances should be taken as a sign of accomplishment. The inner search that characterizes the spiritual pathway is capitulation of the evolution of the ego from prehistoric times up to the present, but this time there is the gift of freedom to choose differently. I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 183-184, 2003

A valuable characteristic of dedication is felicity, which eventually becomes empowered as a quiet but persistent inner fervor. The value of watchful witnessing is that even just awareness of an ego defect tends to undo it. By surrender and prayerful invocation, Divine Will facilitates transition from the lesser to the greater for the Self effortlessly supports and energizes intention. The Self is like a magnetic attraction by which the personal will is progressively surrendered and resistance is weakened. Thus, the pathway itself is self-fulfilling, gratifying, and reveals progressive rewards. Each step, no matter how seemingly small, is equally valuable. Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 36, 2006

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Trickiness of pleasure

The seeming obstacles along the path consist of two components:
1. a seemingly attractive pay-off or pleasure, and
2. fear of its presumptive alternative (i.e. lack of pleasure).

Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, S. 349, 2006

Question: Does the inner path require erudition.
Answer: No. Merely simple attitudes and the necessary motivation are required. To strive to know God is in itself pristine and the ultimate aspiration. Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 72, 2007

It is necessary to have faith in a pathway and clear away doubts to ascertain if they are realistic or merely forms of resistance. A seeker should have the security and support of inner certainty and firm conviction that are consequent to study, personal research, and investigation. Thus, a pathway should be intrinsically reconfirming by discovery and inner experience. A true pathway unfolds, is self-revelatory, and is subject to reconfirmation experientially. As spiritual awareness advances, the flow of spiritual energy increases and enables transcending prior, seemingly insurmountable, obstacles. Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 204, 2007

Devotion prioritizes one's life and attracts that which is of assistance. To be a servant of God is a dedication whereby the goal takes precedence over all other positionalities, attractions, or distractions. By devotion and commitment, the pathway unfolds and revelation supplants presumptive cause-and-effect acquisition. It could be languaged that the dedication is quite 'Yang' by intent, but 'Yin' by fulfillment as a process. Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 35, 2007

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Urge to reach God:

'Fire in the belly'

It is necessary that you develop respect for spiritual endeavor. Straight and narrow is the path, waste no time and effort. Precision is discipline that is innate to serious commitment. Some students may yet be in a period of exploration, but once one gets the 'fire in the belly', the urge to reach God becomes a drivenness or relentless drive, or even, in the eyes of the world, a 'madness'. From that point on, there is no patience for amusement or diversion. It depends on decision, will and the level of consciousness, and karmic propensities. As it gets more intense, the love for God and of God allows no delay. Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, chapter 9, headline "Spiritual Economy", S. 153, 2007

Like anyone else in society, the mind of the aspirant has also unwittingly been programmed. This often escapes notice unless highlighted by a Teacher. Many students adhere to a stereotype of what 'being spiritual' implies. Thus, there are often political/social/intellectual stereotyped beliefs that need to be investigated as naive programs. Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 200, 2007

Straight and narrow is the path, for without inner discipline, the spiritual energy becomes dissipated in diverse attractions. Profound silence is more influential and beneficial than an avalanche of redundant words and actions that emanate from the spiritual ego and its platitudinous rationalizations. Spiritual rhetoric [LoC 180] is still just rhetoric and represents spiritual sophistry. [LoC 180] Discovery of the Presence of God. Devotional Nonduality, S. 200, 2007

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Two pathways: Heart and Mind

Traditionally, the pathways to God have been through the heart (love, devotion, selfless service, surrender, worship, and adoration) or through the mind (Advaita, or the pathway of nonduality). Each way may seem more comfortable at one stage or another, or they alternate in emphasis.
Whether you take the pathway of the heart or the mind, it is a hindrance to consider that there is a personal self or an "I" or an ego that is doing the striving or seeking or which will become enlightened. It is much easier to realize there is no such thing as the ego or an "I" identity that is doing any seeking; instead, it is an impersonal aspect of consciousness that is doing the exploring and seeking. Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. ?, Reflection of February 23th, January 2011

There is no timetable or prescribed route to God. Although each person’s path is unique, the terrain to be covered is relatively common to all. The work is to surmount and transcend the common human failings that are inherent in the structure of the human ego. One would like to think that these failings are personal; however the ego itself is not personal. It was inherited along with becoming a human being. Details differ based on past karma. Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 1, S. 31, quote 2, Hay House, August 2011

Paradoxically, benefit is derived by the self-interest of the ego when it begins to realize that there is a great advantage to unselfishness. When it learns of the benefit of letting go of egocentric goals, the ego itself then becomes the springboard to spiritual inquiry and the means to its own transcendence, realizing that humility is strength and not weakness, and that it is wisdom and not ignorance. The willingness to "forgive and forget" calibrates at 450 (reason/logic). The willingness to "forgive and surrender to God" calibrates at 540 (unconditional love). Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 1, S. 34, quote 1, Hay House, August 2011

Allow yourself to be attracted by your destiny instead of trying to propel it. You don't have to propel yourself. You are moving fast enough! […] It is necessary to develop respect for spiritual endeavor. Straight and narrow is the path; waste no time or effort. Precision is discipline that is innate to serious commitment. Some students may yet be in a period of exploration, but once one gets the "fire in the belly," the urge to reach God becomes a relentless drive – or even, in the eyes of the world, a "madness." From that point on, there is no patience for amusement or diversion. It depends on decision, will, the level of consciousness, and karmic propensities. As it gets more intense, the love for and of God allows no delay. Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. 120, quote ?, Hay House, August 2011

Spiritual evolution is the willingness to give up games and seeming wins for a greater goal which is the evolution of your own consciousness. […] to give up selfishness because what is the ego except selfishness in all its desires. Untitled audio interview, presented by US web radio station Beyond the Ordinary, aired 10. February 2004

Naivete is different than ignorance and that's different from innocence and they are all different than denial. What passes as spirituality is often denial. A posturing ignorance, an assumed innocence (which innocence itself does not need to assume) just like humility does not need to assume the position of pseudo-humility. The goody-goody side of spirituality is available everywhere. The goody-goody side of spirituality has a big trap to it, otherwise, everybody would be enlightened. If it were easy to skyrocket to 1000 we'd already be there. We'd all be off this planet. [...] So part of being spiritual is starting to become integrous. It requires honesty and strength. Part of the spiritual [path] is the spiritual warrior who stands up and defends the truth. Sedona Seminar Karma and the Afterlife, 3 DVD set, October 2002

Question (man): I feel I am going backwards on the spiritual path. [Paraphrased.]
Answer: Every time you go through another layer you think you just went back. No, it’s progress!
Sedona Satsang Q&A Golden Word Book Signing hour, 3 CD set, 13. January 2007

You let go of anything non-loving in your life. It's really the fastest way to God, to let go of that which is unGodly. Long Beach, California, Seminar The Clear Pathway to Enlightenment, 3 DVD set, 8. March 2008

Question: How come that my intensity of focus on the spiritual path comes and goes? [Paraphrased.]
Answer: That is normal. You go into very high states and then states in which nothing seems to be happening for years. And then you can suddenly go into a very high state again. It doesn’t follow a reasonable, rational course. Like the weather, you know what I mean? There is no way to turn it into a rational expectation. The fluctuation depends on many things – karma and otherwise.
God speaks to all of us all the time. It’s a matter of learning how to listen. You walk through the woods and you hear the birds singing. If you are naïve you don’t realize it is God singing to you through the bird. Everything is Divinity. Nothing else exists. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about finding God. Cottonwood Satsang Q&A, 2 CD set, 12. March 2011

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Gehet ein durch die enge Pforte. Denn die Pforte ist weit, und der Weg ist breit, der zur Verdammnis abführt; und ihrer sind viele, die darauf wandeln. Und die Pforte ist eng, und der Weg ist schmal, der zum Leben führt; und wenige sind ihrer, die ihn finden. Matthäus 7, 13-14 (NT)

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Eigenwillen suspendieren, Widerstand aufgeben

Da kommen denn viele Leute und erdenken sich mancherlei Wege, um zu diesem Ziel zu gelangen: die einen wollen ein Jahr lang von Wasser und Brot leben, die anderen eine Wallfahrt machen, bald dies, bald das. Ich nenne Dir den einfachsten und kürzesten Weg: Geh in deinen Grund und prüfe, was Dich am meisten hindert, Dich am meisten von der Erreichung des Zieles zurück hält; darauf richte deinen Blick. Diesen Stein wirf in des Rheines Grund. Wenn nicht, lauf bis zum Ende der Welt, und tu alles mögliche, es hilft Dir nichts. Das Messer, das das Fleisch vom Knochen trennt, heißt Sterben des eigenen Willens und Begehrens. Viele Leute töten die Natur und lassen die Gebrechen leben: daraus wird nie etwas. Johannes Tauler [BW 640] (~1300-1361) deutscher katholischer Theologe, neuplatonischer Dominikaner-Mönch, Rheinland-Mystiker, Volksprediger, Predigten in 2 Bänden, hrsg. und übertragen von Georg Hofmann, Johannes Verlag, Einsiedeln 1979, Neuauflage, 2011

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Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Matthew 7, 13-14 (NT)

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7, 13-14 (NT)

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself. Buddha [LoC 1000] (563-483 BC) Indian Avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways. Buddha [LoC 1000] (563-483 BC) Indian Avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism

Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to Him. Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. God will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive. But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you. The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well. A Course in Miracles, workbook [LoC 600], lesson189|Lesson 189, paragraph 7, 1976, rev. 1996

The true spiritual path is a path of humbleness. I fear being humiliated and I am not going there.
If you are afraid of being humiliated you will be arrogant and prideful and that will be your downfall. If you are afraid to be humiliated you only live your fate. You will never get to your destiny. [...] People associate God with being humiliated. They assoicate and spiritual surrender with being humiliated and poverty. Video interview with Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, lecturer, five-time New York Times bestseller author, Human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, Chicago, USA, presented by webTV, host Lilou Macé on Juicy Living Tour, YouTube film, minute 16:57 and 50:54, 57:26 minutes duration, posted 4. August 2011

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson [LoC 485] (1803-1882) US American lecturer, Unitarian, poet, essayist

The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning one’s self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self. Aldous Huxley [LoC 485] (1894-1963) English US American humanist, pacifist, visionary poet, essayist, writer on parapsychology and philosophical mysticism

When Jesus said, “I am the way,” He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way. In the Acts of the Apostles, the early Christians always spoke of their faith as “the Way.” To me, “I am the way” is a better statement than “I know the way.” The way is not an asphalt road. But we must distinguish between the “I” spoken by Jesus and the “I” that people usually think of. The “I” in His statement is life itself, His life, which is the way. If you do not really look at His life, you cannot see the way. If you only satisfy yourself with praising a name, even the name of Jesus, it is not practicing the life of Jesus. We must practice living deeply, loving, and acting with charity if we wish to truly honor Jesus. The way is Jesus Himself and not just some idea of Him. A true teaching is not static. It is not mere words but the reality of life. Many who have neither the way nor the life try to impose on others what they believe to be the way. But these are only words that have no connection with real life or a real way. When we understand and practice deeply the life and teachings of Buddha or the life and teachings of Jesus, we penetrate the door and enter the abode of the living Buddha and the living Christ, and life eternal presents itself to us. Thich Nhat Hanh [LoC 460] (*1926) Vietnamese France based Buddhist monk, peace activist, teacher, poet, author, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Riverhead, 12. September 1995

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. Turkish proverb

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Which way to go to somewhere from here?

Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
Alice: "I don’t much care where."
Cat: "Then it doesn’t matter which way you go."
Alice: "So long as I get somewhere."
Cat: "Oh, you’re sure to do that if you only walk long enough."
Excerpted from: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [LoC 420] by Lewis Carroll [~LoC 420] (1832-1898) English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, photographer

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Das All-sehende Auge, S.
Licht des Alls, S.

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Lebensfluss, der spirituelle Weg als Lebensfluss, Integrale Perspektive, 2011

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Video presentation by Charles Eisenstein, Ph.D. ascentofhumanity.com, US American graduate in mathematics and philosophy, scholar on Eastern spiritual traditions, Chinese translator, associate professor, Penn State University, author, Invisible Path, YouTube film, posted 8.-9. January 2011
- Invisible Path, part 1 of 4, 11:17 minutes duration
- Invisible Path, part 2 of 4, 11:20 minutes duration
- Invisible Path, part 3 of 4, 11:16 minutes duration
- Invisible Path, part 4 of 4, 8:39 minutes duration

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