From Stress to Stillness Quotes

“What we resist persists.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“If loving something means giving it our attention (and it does), then most of us are in love with our thoughts. The irony is that this lover doesn’t love us back but, instead, gives us a lot of negative messages and poor advice. In short, this lover makes us unhappy. What can explain our devotion to such a poor lover?”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“One of the qualities of our true nature besides being aware is that it is allowing and accepting. “Noticing” captures how consciousness touches the experiences of life but doesn’t push them away, cling to them, judge them, or even evaluate them as good or bad, which are all features of the egoic self.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“We were never meant to be anything other than the way we are right now. True perfection is life just as it is.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“If we believe our thoughts, then they define us and determine our experience of life, how we feel, and what we do. We are, in many respects, a puppet to our conditioning, to our thoughts and feelings—when we believe them. When we are identified with them and believe them, we are at the mercy of them. They run the show.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“The universal story is: “I’m not good enough. Life isn’t good enough!” Built into everyone’s story is an I that needs to strive to be good enough and to make life turn out right. When the me does succeed at something, that feeling of finally being good enough is all too soon replaced by the old drumbeat: “I’m still not good enough! Life still isn’t good enough!”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“You drop your mental baggage because you see that it offers nothing of value but only takes you away from the experience of the beautiful being that you are.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“Chasing after what we want only results in more wanting, not in satiation.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“have. Our true nature is steady, receptive, and accepting of everything that happens, including our own misguided conclusions and behaviors.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“Don’t say yes out of obligation. When you don’t feel an inner yes, say no to others’ requests for your help. Reserve some of your time and energy for things you love to do.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“your attention to what is here, not to what isn’t.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“antidote to judgment is accepting people the way they are and not imposing our desires and expectations on them. Our”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“The feeling of unworthiness or that something is missing in our life is often at the root of excessive busy-ness and striving and therefore at the root of stress. By being very busy or working very hard, we often try to compensate for such feelings of lack. Alternately, we might seek love and approval from others or compulsively try to fix and improve ourselves.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“The antidote to the stress and suffering caused by the egoic mind is letting everything be as it is.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“When things don’t go as planned, simply asking, “Is it that important?” can be helpful. Answer this question from a place of being zoomed out: “Will this be important a year from now or several years from now? Will this be important on my deathbed?” Many of the things we get upset about wouldn’t be important even moments or days later.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“The more present we are to life, the more enjoyment we get out of life. The opposite is also true: The less present we are to life, the less enjoyment we get out of life.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“Without our stressful thoughts, we would be kinder, more relaxed, more at peace, lighter emotionally, and more in tune with our innate wisdom and the natural flow of life.”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace

“To help bring the rest of reality into focus and put the feeling in its proper perspective, we can ask ourselves: “Is there space around the feeling? How big is that space? Can I make that space even bigger? What is that space like? Is peace there? Is love there? Is compassion there? Can I be that space? What’s it like to observe the feeling from the perspective of space? As space, what can I discover about this feeling? Can I, as space, give love and compassion to the feeling?”
― Gina Lake, From Stress to Stillness: Tools for Inner Peace