David R. Hawkins

When we are at the effect of desire, we are no longer free. We are controlled by it, run by it, enslaved and led about by the nose by it

The main illusion is seen in the statement, “The only way that I’ll get what I want is by desiring it; if I let go of my desire, then I won’t get what I want.” Actually, the opposite is true. Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want

The desiring was actually the obstacle to its achievement or acquisition.

This is because desire literally means, “I do not have.” In other words, if we say that we desire something, we are saying that it isn’t ours.

This distance becomes the obstacle that consumes energy

The impossible becomes possible as soon as we are totally surrendered.

This is a different way of looking at achieving goals than the one we are used to from the programming of our world. We are used to picturing ambition and success as being associated with hard work and the classical “Protestant ethic” virtues. These include self-sacrifice, asceticism, great expenditure of effort and endeavor, keeping our nose to the grindstone, tightening our belt, buckling down, and all the grimness of hard work

Let’s compare the arduous lower consciousness way of achieving goals with a higher state of consciousness in which we have acknowledged and let go of the desire, and are in a freer state. In a freer state, that which is chosen manifests in our life effortlessly.

We surrender the emotion of desire and, instead

merely choose the goal, picture it lovingly, and allow it to happen because we see that it is already ours