Embracing the Now Quotes

“Love is the opposite of judgment. Love is acceptance. It is accepting our own judgments without acting on them and accepting other people's judgments and beliefs without reacting to them. The result of acceptance is peace. Therefore, the antidote to war is acceptance. If everyone would let everyone else have their beliefs, it would be possible for people to live in harmony.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

“Love thrives when we accept others as they are, while allowing them to grow, develop, and be as they are meant to be. This is the kind of environment that we, as parents, would hope to provide our children. Being there for others, supporting their growth, supporting them in their trials, and celebrating life with them is a great service to others.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

“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 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

“We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

“Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

“Being aligned with aliveness instead of our thoughts and feelings actually makes us more effective and functional—and also more kind—than being identified with our thoughts and feelings.”
― Gina Lake, Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is