Simple Tools for Serious Seekers: by David R Hawins

1. Be kind to everything and everyone; including oneself, all the time with no exception.

2. Revere all of life in all its expressions, no matter what, even if one does not understand it.

3. Presume no actual reliable knowledge of anything at all. Ask God to reveal its meaning.

4. Intend to see the hidden beauty in all that exists- it then reveals itself.

5. Forgive everything that is witnessed and experienced, no matter what. Remember Christ, Buddah and Krishna all said that all error is due to ignorance. Socrates said all men can choose only what they believe to be good.

6. Approach all life with humility and be willing to surrender all positionalities and mental/emotional arguements or gain.

7. Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire,or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life and all of its expressions.

8. Make one's life a living prayer by intention, alignment, humility and surrender. True spiritual reality is a way of being in the world.

9. By verification, confirm the levels of consciousness and spiritual truth of all teachers, teachings, spiritual groups and literature with which one intends to be aligned or a student.

10. Accept that by spiritual declaration, commitment, and surrender, Knowingness arises that provides support, information and all that is needed for the entire journey.

The most powerful tool that is in the province of the will is devotion.  David R Hawkins