Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality Quotes

“You don’t discover what else is possible unless you venture out of that reality into Reality. The big leap from the illusion to reality is made possible by being willing to not know: to not know where the money will come from, to not know how you will accomplish something, to not know why something happened the way it happened, to not know what your life is going to look like or who you will be with. You have never known these things anyway. You have only been trying to know and pretending to know, assuming that you needed to know. But you don’t.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“It flows through you and moves you to speak and act, whenever your speech and actions are not being coopted by the ego. You only feel separate. But that is the illusion. How you feel does not reflect the truth about reality. Reality is bounteous, trustworthy, and intelligent beyond imagination.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“No one else but you can actually make you feel love or feel loved. That is solely up to you. Love is an experience that happens within you. It is an experience of your heart being open. If your heart is open, you won’t need love from another person. It’s only when your heart is closed that you feel a need for love from another.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“That judgments close hearts should be pretty obvious. Judgments come from a closed heart, so naturally they also cause others to close their hearts. Judgments are a perfect example of an internal reality, or climate, determining one’s external reality. When you openly judge others, you will be judged in return, as predictably as the night follows the day.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“The more time you spend in the present moment without your thoughts, the more you are able to know life as it truly is, as your true self experiences it. If you spend enough time being fully present in the moment, you discover the truth about life—that it is good, trustworthy, wondrous, miraculous, and divinely and intelligently guided. Only your personal illusory reality keeps you from realizing this. Your beliefs cause you to misperceive life. Once the lens of your perception is cleared of the beliefs that distort your vision, you can see life as it really is.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Love is possible only when you drop all ideas and beliefs and meet another just as he or she is showing up in the moment, fresh and new.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“because life is not designed to meet your desires and expectations. Life has its own purpose and its own plan. Life brings you the people it does for many reasons, which you may never understand. Your only choice is whether or not to love who Life brings you.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“If you are unkind, insecure, defensive, or cold in relationship because of some belief, that inner climate is bound to sabotage your chance for a healthy relationship. Who you are likely to end up with is someone who is willing to be with someone who is unloving, insecure, defensive, or cold because he needs to be with someone—anyone—rather than because he loves you. This can’t be a satisfying relationship for long, and your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“you believe different things about different groups of people: You have beliefs about poor people, beliefs about rich people, beliefs about children, beliefs about teenagers, beliefs about Christians and Jews, beliefs about Americans and every other nationality, beliefs about the different races, beliefs about women, beliefs about men, beliefs about the elderly, beliefs about attractive and unattractive people, beliefs about intelligent and not-so-intelligent people, beliefs about overweight and thin people, and on and on. That’s a lot of beliefs to be aware of and examine!”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“If you can maintain a positive inner climate, that will help you drop into and remain in the flow. Then life will feel much easier and Life’s opportunities and support will be more apparent. Doing the work of weeding out or learning to detach from beliefs that create a negative internal climate is so important, since such beliefs are what prevent you from being in the flow and, consequently, from tapping into the wisdom and resources you need to handle whatever the flow is bringing.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“So why would you believe such thoughts? The only reason you do is that you were programmed to believe what seem to be “your” thoughts. But they are not your thoughts. Believing that they are is the foundational lie that makes the illusory reality possible.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Such a negative emotional climate makes you feel dark, heavy, negative, and needy, like a black hole. It also affects how you appear to others: You don’t smile much, you don’t make eye contact, and you keep to yourself. It’s like being painted black and makes you almost invisible to others.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“One of the main ways the programming maintains itself is by filtering out evidence that contradicts the programming. The belief “I’m not worthy of happiness” ensures that you will filter out possibilities for happiness. This might mean that you don’t seek out activities or relationships that would make you happy, because if you did, you would prove your programming wrong. Instead, you are likely to engage in relationships and activities, such as addictions, that don’t make you happy, thereby fulfilling the edict of your programming. This all happens, of course, unconsciously, as no one purposefully seeks to create circumstances that will cause unhappiness.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Such lifetimes are a crash course in creation. If the learning is not accomplished in that lifetime, the learning continues in between lifetimes and into the next.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“The problem is that once these beliefs are formed, they aren’t easily reshaped or erased. And once they are established, they tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies, which reinforces those beliefs. Consequently, what a child is told early on about himself or herself is crucial and will largely determine how happy and fulfilled he or she will be. If the messages were negative, that person will have to work to overcome that programming through awareness of it and a conscious attempt to reprogram those ideas. Because the illusion is not that easily seen through, this can take years of diligent effort.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“When you are young, you have no identity; you don’t know what to think about yourself. Ideas about yourself are given to you by past-life imprinting, parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, friends, and others close to you when you are growing up. You are told who you are, sometimes directly but often covertly and subtly. Children also draw their own conclusions about themselves based on their experiences. One’s identity is made up of ideas collected along the way from all of these sources.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Becoming aware of the beliefs behind the emotional wound frees you from this cycle of pain and hurt.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Emotional wounding creates the deepest distortions in one’s personal illusory reality and therefore the greatest suffering.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“First, let’s consider beliefs around being a man or woman. Each gender is loaded with beliefs and expectations that shape and limit possibilities, often beyond one’s awareness. Every culture has expectations for each gender and so does every family. Children are trained from birth to act a certain way, to develop themselves in certain ways, and to see themselves in a certain way depending on their gender. Meaning is given to gender: “I am a woman/man means....” How you complete this sentence reveals the beliefs you hold around your gender, many of which are limiting.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Everyone is busy trying to fix their perceived problems and trying to get what they believe they lack and therefore what they believe they need to be safe and happy. This sense of lack drives the greed that has been so damaging to many and to the earth.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“This egoic sense of lack creates a feeling of having a problem that needs to be fixed, which the ego is glad to offer advice about. The thoughts in your mind send you here and there, trying to fix a problem that only exists in your mind. The fact that other people’s minds might agree that you have a problem doesn’t make an imaginary problem real, but their agreement does make imaginary problems seem real.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“The ego is a programmed, ongoing sense of lack, which imagines lack where there is none. This programmed feeling of lack is one of the reasons people drink, do drugs, overeat, and try to escape reality in other ways. They are trying to escape the ego’s painful illusory reality—and who can blame them? They are trying to escape the sense of not being or having enough by filling the imaginary void within themselves with alcohol, drugs, food, sex, and material things. The trouble is, imaginary voids cannot be filled, because they are imaginary.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Thinking and experiencing are two very different experiences, different states of consciousness, really. One is a mental experience and one is an actual experience of reality.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“If you believe that life is scary, untrustworthy, cruel, harsh, and unfair, instead of feeling angry and aggressive, you may feel defeated, powerless, and afraid to face life. Many who find themselves in the grip of addictions feel just this way.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Much of what keeps the ego’s lies in place now is the fear of being different from the crowd, of stepping beyond convention and going against how most people think. Once there is less of a stigma around questioning your programming, because more people are not drinking the ego’s Kool-Aid, people will awaken to the truth—to reality—much more easily.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Once enough people see the falseness of their thoughts and realize that their thoughts are the cause of their suffering, and once people realize the possibility of a better reality, consciousness can change quite rapidly.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Beliefs manifest as reality. This is why nothing short of a change in consciousness will change your world fundamentally. This change of consciousness is imperative now.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“The spiritual heart has been guiding you all along, but it is often overshadowed by beliefs. When beliefs stop running your life and the heart takes over, your life will change because you will no longer be caught in your personal illusory reality. You will see all the beliefs and stories that created your illusory reality for what they are, and then you will know reality.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“Beliefs are more often than not self-fulfilling prophecies. That is why becoming aware of your beliefs is so important. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that is not true but becomes true merely because it is believed.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus

“The spiritual journey is about the gradual and sometimes sudden clearing away of the mistaken beliefs and misperceptions that have interfered with experiencing reality and with experiencing yourself as you truly are.”
― Gina Lake, Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus