Saturday, March 5, 2016

Letting Go, a brief book review

After starting Letting Go, the Pathway of Surrender, by David R. Hawkins 6 months ago, I've finally finished today.
Wow. Cannot recommend this book enough.
Throughout the months, I experienced a few words or passage the strongly spoke to me.
This quote gives a summarizing idea of what the book is like.
"So, serious spiritual work is a continuous willingness to let things go as they arise. It is the willingness to surrender wanting to control everything as it arises, the willingness to surrender wanting to change it, and to have it our way. Very often there will be illusions about the nature of Reality that also have to be let go. That there's a good and a bad, a desirable and an undesirable; that's all in the mind. In Reality, the Sun shines and then the clouds come; the rain falls and the grass grows up and dies; the stock market goes up and down; age comes and goes; people arrive and leave. And, so, there's the ebb and flow. If you are at this one point of the cycle, there's no use in crying about it because the cycle will cycle itself out. By surrendering to whatever is cycling up, it eventually disappears. You disappeared by choosing to be one with it and refusing to want to change it as it arises. Do this continuously, no matter what, nonstop."
"Experience arises like a note of music. The minute you hear a note, it's already passing away. The instant you've heard it, it's already dissolving. So every single moment is dissolving as it arises. Let go of anticipating the next moment, trying to control it, trying to hang on to the moment that has just passed. Let go clinging to what has just occurred. Let go trying to control what you think is about to occur. Then you live in an infinite space of non-time and non-event. There is an infinite peace beyond description. And you are home."