Jay Salazar

“Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can’t be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.”
― Gina Lake, A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey

“Beliefs can’t change reality, even though they change one’s experience of it. To be helpful, beliefs have to reflect reality accurately. The ego tries to change reality with its faulty beliefs—its shoulds and coulds—while the hero doesn’t bother with beliefs that aren’t true. He knows that only the ones that stand up to experience and match reality work and are useful.”
― Gina Lake, A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey

“But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind’s ceaseless thoughts.”
― Gina Lake, A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey

“The only thing that exists is the present moment, the Now, but we, as human beings, have a particular relationship with our thoughts that takes us out of the experience of the moment.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is