Jay Salazar

“with our thoughts—any thought—we lose touch with the peace and contentment of the Now.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

“The hero noticed that if he let love, excitement, and joy lead him, he would be happy and find his way to greater love, peace, and happiness. He discovered that love is both the path and the reward of following the path.”
― Gina Lake, A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey

“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

“Language such as “good” and “bad” and “I like” and “I don’t like” divides the world into what you want and don’t want. Then when life shows up in a way you don’t like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn’t exist without them.”
― Gina Lake, A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey