The spiritual pathway is facilitated by certain characteristics which become reinforced and more powerful with practice, experience and success. These include the capacity to focus unswervingly on a goal and concentrate fixedly on a technique or spiritual exercise with commitment and dedication. Thus, there is a resolution of purpose and willingness to let go of everything or anything based upon one’s profound belief and faith in a spiritual teaching or truth. In general, there is a willingness to forgive and love rather than to hate and condemn. There is a willingness to forsake the lesser for the greater and a desire to understand rather than to judge. The reason people with spiritual interests seem to congregate is because they have a preference for peace and tranquility over stimulation and excitement. Perhaps the most important tool is the capacity for humility and the realisation of the limitations of ordinary consciousness and their consequences.

–  David R Hawkins from ‘The Eye of the I’