This edition is no longer in print, but Return to Essence is available in a more recent edition.Being in the flow and not being in the flow are two very different states. One is dominated by the ego-driven mind, which is the cause of suffering, while the other is the domain of Essence, the Divine within each of us. We are meant to live in the flow. The flow is the experience of Essence-our true self-as it lives life through us and fulfills its purpose for this life. Return to Essence describes how to get into the flow and stay there and how to live life from there. It also explains what the flow is, how it feels, and what you find there; how the ego/mind and conditioning keep us out of the flow; how to get back into the flow; how action, talking, knowing, and choosing come out of the flow; how to discover where the flow is going; and how to find and fulfill our life purpose. Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and integrating the understanding. From Return to Essence: "You cannot be fulfilled by someone else's life purpose; you can only be fulfilled by yours. You won't find out what that is by listening to the mind because it doesn't know. Only by paying attention to what is coming out of the flow and letting that lead you through your life will you fulfill your life's purpose." From Return to Essence: "You were meant for this life you are having, not some other life, not someone else's life. Experiencing is the reason you are here. However, you are not here for just any experience but for the ones you are having because you are the only one in this entire universe destined for these experiences. They are designed just for you. You are co-creating them with the Source, which is loving it all."Review: "For fans of Eckhart Tolle and the few other great spiritual teachers of this time, this book shows us how to concretely apply those teachings in our everyday lives." -Jeff Bronson

Return to Essence: How to Be in the Flow and Fulfill Your Life's Purpose

Gina Lake

Religion & Spirituality

Endless Satsang Foundation

Note: This book is no longer in print. It has been expanded and republished by Hampton Roads under the new title: Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationship.Having a meaningful relationship requires choosing love over your conditioning, that is, your ideas, fantasies, desires, images, and beliefs. Choosing Love by Gina Lake describes how to move beyond conditioning, judgment, anger, romantic illusions, and differences to the experience of love and Oneness with another. It explains how to drop into the core of your Being, where Oneness and love exist, and be with others from there. It also explains how to recognize, find, and sustain a meaningful relationship; how to embrace and move beyond differences and resolve conflicts; how to overcome judgments, demands, criticism, and resentment; how the ego interferes with love and happiness in relationship; how to see the Divine in the other; what to do and not do with anger; the factors that are most important to compatibility; and how to make joint decisions. Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and integrating the understanding.

Choosing Love: A Guide to Spiritual Relationship

You are here for a purpose, and only your life purpose--not someone else's--will do. You are a spiritual being with a destiny as a human being, although the details are not predetermined but created by you in each moment. Your life is a dance between you as the Creator and you as a human creator, and it's not choreographed but improvised. Behind all life is an Intelligence, and you are part of that and a unique expression of it and the means by which it experiences and explores life. Your life purpose is the intent of this Intelligence as it lives through you. Living Your Destiny will help you identify this purpose and be true to it. It explains: the variety of life purposes; how to recognize your life purpose; how you are led to your life purpose; how the Heart speaks to you; how to develop a connection with the Heart; how to become free of your conditioning; and how to live your life purpose fully.

Living Your Destiny: How to Live the Life that Is Meant for You

This edition is no longer in print, but Radical Happiness is available in a more recent edition. Radical Happiness provides the keys to experiencing the happiness that is always present and not dependent on circumstances. This happiness doesn't come from getting what we want, but from wanting what is here now. It comes from realizing that who we think we are, that is, who our thoughts tell us we are is not who we really are. This is a radical perspective! True happiness comes from experiencing our true nature by being present in each moment. Radical Happiness describes the nature of the egoic state of consciousness, how the ego interferes with happiness, how to detach from the ego, how to be in the moment, how to be with emotions in a way that heals and releases them, what awakening and enlightenment are, and how to live in this world following awakening. Exercises are included to help you apply the information and transform your experience of life--and become happier!

Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening

Self-Help

Lake,Gina

Happiness

This edition is no longer in print, but Getting Free is available in a more recent edition. Freedom from your conditioning is possible, but the mind is a formidable opponent to freedom. It was designed to keep you thinking of yourself the way you do. Getting free requires a new way of thinking or, rather, not thinking. Healing our emotional selves entails changing our relationship to our mind and discovering our true nature. This book will help you do that. It will also help you reprogram your mind; clear negative thoughts and self-images; use meditation, prayer, forgiveness, and gratitude; work with spiritual forces to assist healing and clear negativity; and heal entrenched issues from the past. Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and integrating the information.

Getting Free - How to Move Beyond Conditioning and Be Happy

"The beauty of this collection of Nirmala's talks and dialogues is that it covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the initial experience of one's true nature to the practical challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and beyond....Nirmala welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself-to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace." -From the Foreword by Adyashanti.

Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self

Nirmala

Choosing Love: How to Find True Love and Keep It Alive

Living in the Now was created from blog posts and offers inspiration, reflections on the human condition, and practical spiritual guidance on subjects such as aging, fear, anger, choice, boredom, desire, patience, peace, faith, forgiveness, acceptance, love, commitment, hope, purpose, honesty, spiritual experiences, meditation, being present, healing conditioning, trusting life, trusting your Heart, and many other deep subjects. The intent of these messages is to help you wake up out of the ego and realize your true nature as Oneness and, therefore, be more present, happy, loving, and fulfilled in your life. These messages were given to Gina Lake by a wise and benevolent consciousness from another dimension, who is dedicated to helping humanity awaken. Each short message stands on its own and can be used for contemplation or as a spiritual reminder.

Living In The Now: Reflections From Another Dimension About Being Happy In This One

History

The secret to happiness is moving out of the mind and learning to delight in each moment. In What About Now, you will find over 150 quotes from Gina Lake’s books—Loving in the Moment, Embracing the Now, Radical Happiness, and others—that will inspire and enable you to be more present. These empowering quotes will wake you up out of your ordinary consciousness and help you live with more love, contentment, gratitude, and awe. Here is a sample: “Experiencing what you are experiencing and experiencing your thoughts are very different realities. When you are experiencing what you are experiencing, you are at peace, relaxed, content, absorbed, with no thoughts about me or how I am doing, or any other stories, which are the ego’s version of reality. Instead of experiencing reality, the ego tells a story about it, and that becomes its reality.”

What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

The 99 essays in Living in the Now provide practical wisdom that will help you live in this world as the spiritual being that you are. They can be read in any order and used in daily contemplation. They address many questions raised by the spiritual search, offering insight on fear, anger, happiness, aging, boredom, desire, patience, faith, forgiveness, acceptance, commitment, love, purpose, meaning, fulfillment, meditation, being present, quieting the mind, letting go of the past, healing conditioning, dealing with emotions, trusting life, trusting your Heart, and many other deep subjects. These essays will help you become more present and aware of your true nature and feel more loving, happy, grateful, and at peace.

Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are

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