Living in the Now Quotes

“Love allows others to be just as they are. It supports and nurtures, listens, and cares. Love flows toward others from within us. It exists within us and isn't something we get from others.”
― Gina Lake, Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are

“Most preferences are a matter of taste, which varies from person to person. So how important can they be to our happiness? If we prefer chocolate ice cream and are given vanilla instead, how bad is that? Many people would rather have vanilla, so it can't be that bad. What makes it bad is comparing chocolate to vanilla or holding an idea of chocolate while eating vanilla. The problem isn't in the experience of vanilla, but in what the mind does with that experience. The mind interferes with experiencing vanilla ice cream with images and ideas of something else. If uncluttered by those images, eating vanilla ice cream instead of chocolate is just a different experience, not an inferior one, or at least not a reason to suffer.”
― Gina Lake, Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are

“The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.”
― Gina Lake, Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are