Books by Gina
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- Angels, Masters, and Guides
- Cycles of the Soul
- What Jesus Wants You to Know
- In the World but Not of It
- The Shift
- All Grace
- Awakening Love
- The Jesus Trilogy
- A Heroic Life
- Jesus Speaking Series
- Faith, Facts, & Fiction
- Ten Teachings for One World
- From Stress to Stillness
- Choosing Love
- Embracing the Now
- Living in the Now
- Being Happy
- Radical Happiness
- Return to Essence
Excerpt from The Jesus Trilogy
I will tell you the truth about life. The truth is actually very simple: Life is perfect just as it is. This includes you! You are perfect just as you are and so is everyone else. There is no problem to fix, although fixing and improvements naturally happen. There is nothing that needs to be different, although everything is in the process of changing and becoming different. There is nothing lacking within you or in any moment, although everything is, paradoxically, evolving and becoming more of what it already is. You are eternal, although your body is not. You are Divine Consciousness, although you are not always aware of that. Love and goodness are your true nature, although this is not always your experience.
These truths are immutable. They might not appear to be true at times, but that is an illusion. When the sky is covered over with clouds, it seems to have disappeared, but the sky is always there and always blue behind the clouds. The sky’s nature and appearance never change; only the clouds prevent you from seeing it.
When the blue sky is not visible, you still trust that it exists, because you know the truth about the sky and the truth about the clouds. The same is true regarding the truth about life: Once you realize the Truth, you can draw upon that realization when the Truth is obscured by fear or a mistaken idea. You can remind yourself of the Truth, and that is often enough to regain perspective.
You can always be fooled again by the illusion cast by your thoughts, feelings, and desires, because you are human. There will always be ideas and feelings that seem very real, which can entangle you in their illusory reality. But once you know the Truth, you cannot be fooled in the same way or lost in the illusion for long, because you know that blue sky is behind those clouds and that, at some point, the clouds will part and the Truth will be clearly seen again.
The truth can actually be summed up in one sentence: Everything is unfolding perfectly. So, let us explore this great truth a little more fully.
First of all, notice what happens in your body when you take in this truth. The body melts into relaxation and gives a great sigh of relief, because if it is true that everything is unfolding perfectly, then all the striving to fix yourself and the struggling against life can stop. Finally, you can just be.
What it is that you get to be is your true self, which is in love with life—which is love and is life. When you stop trying to fix and change the way things are, you discover who you really are, and who you are is everything you have ever wanted to be.
The real truth, that everything is unfolding perfectly, is the exact opposite of the ego’s truth! A definition of the ego might be the programming that causes you to see lack and imperfection everywhere and that compels you to try to fix, change, and improve things, including your experience. This programming also compels you to seek solace in pleasure and seek happiness in desire-fulfillment to cope with the stress and suffering caused by this endless improvement project.
This project to improve yourself and to fix and change things is an effort on the part of the ego to keep you safe. The ego is dedicated to being vigilant about all the ways you might improve yourself or your situation. That is its constant focus. Even in the absence of any real problems, the egoic mind can easily enumerate many things that, according to it, need fixing or improving: “Lose five pounds. Be nicer. Take longer walks. Read more books. Eat more fiber. Get enlightened. Fix your relationship with your mother. Get a relationship.”
What is not always obvious about the ego’s suggestions, however, is that many are things you have little control over, although the implication is that you do. For example, is it really in your power to get enlightened or to get a relationship or to fix your relationship with your mother? These are tall orders for the little ego to fill! It’s best to leave such things up to something wiser and more powerful.
The implication that you can and should be able to make life be the way you would like it to be through your own efforts is a false assumption on the part of the ego, which is in denial about its own lack of control. The ego takes the fact that you do have some control in life to mean that you can and should have complete control, which of course is wishful thinking on the part of the ego.
As well-meaning as the ego’s lists may seem, they make you feel inadequate, burdened, overwhelmed, and like a failure when you don’t achieve everything on them. Such lists are a source of suffering more than they are helpful. But they do help the ego sustain the illusion that you are a self that is forever lacking, which gives the ego a reason for existing.
Most moments are filled with thoughts about what is missing or wrong and what you might do about it. The mind is in the habit of thinking such thoughts, and people are in the habit of taking the bait and agreeing with the mind that there are all these problems that need fixing. It’s not that there are not real problems that need to be solved and things that need to be fixed, but the mind creates problems where there were none.
The mind comes up with problems and solutions, because the mind was designed to do this. In so doing, the ego is trying to be helpful and is helpful sometimes. However, the ego often tries to manage people’s lives in ways that are not helpful and also not appropriate. It’s not that there isn’t some value in this aspect of the software, but for the mind’s suggestions to become a way of life gives the software too much power—power that it was not designed to have.
When you are no longer in the ego’s grip, all there is, is peace and the realization that everything is unfolding perfectly. But how will you discover this if you have been trained that not doing or not striving is equal to laziness, that such relaxed being and flowing with life is, in a sense, immoral, according to the ego’s values? When the ego is god, then doing is god and not doing or just being is the opposite of god, the opposite of good. Just being becomes bad or is at least seen to have no value.
The illusion is set up very cleverly to maintain itself, and it is maintained by beliefs such as these: Doing is good and just being is bad. Because beliefs are what maintain the illusion, it makes sense that beliefs are what must be examined—and changed—to become free of the illusion.
Let’s examine this idea of doing. Does “Everything is unfolding perfectly” mean that you don’t have to do anything or that you won’t do anything if you believe this? On some level, this is what the mind would argue, although if you examine this argument, it falls apart.
Of course you would still do things even if you believed that everything was unfolding perfectly. How could you not do things? It is impossible to do nothing. You would naturally do what you needed to do to survive, whether your mind told you what to do or not.
You do not need your egoic mind to tell you how to survive. The belief that you need it to survive is part of the illusion. The software working in the background takes care of basic survival without the egoic mind needing to manage your every move, and your own wise being does the rest. The egoic mind is the aspect of the computer-mind that pretends to be useful but isn’t.
If you believed that everything was unfolding perfectly, you would discover that you are naturally motivated by something other than the push and sense of lack of the ego. Without the ego’s motivation, the greater will—the flow—would move you, and always has to some extent.
When you are in the flow, just being moves naturally into doing when necessary and then back into just being when doing is no longer necessary. By just being, you are renewed, readied for, and informed of whatever arises next to be done. What that is, comes out of the flow, and just being makes it possible to be aware of that. When you are in the flow, you experience a natural cycling of being and doing that serves the flow.
Everything is unfolding perfectly means that whatever you do, even if it is motivated by the small will, is part of the perfect unfolding of the moment. Some would argue that some actions could not belong to the perfect unfolding. For example, could a crime be part of the perfect unfolding? The answer is yes, because the Perfection includes free will and allows for any possible choice you could make. That’s why it’s called free will. You are free to do anything.
Choosing whatever you choose is not a problem for the unfolding of life, because Life adjusts to and includes whatever you choose in the unfolding. By “adjusts,” I mean that Life, the flow, responds accordingly, so Life’s intent will continue to be fulfilled no matter what you choose. In this way, life is like a river: If a tree falls into the river, the river continues to flow in the same direction, but it adjusts its course slightly.
You see, you cannot change the flow of life dramatically. You can only cause it to make adjustments. You affect the flow, but you do not change the flow. You are not powerful enough to change it. The flow is proceeding in a particular direction, and it adjusts to your choices, but it is not changed by those choices.
All of the doing the ego engages in is like ripples in the river of Life, in this ever-unfolding Perfection. Like a child playing in the river, the child splashes, but the river is still the river, and it still moves in the direction it is moving in.
Your free will is not a match for the greater will. When the small will is not aligned with the greater will, the greater will always wins. Nevertheless, the greater will often allows the small will to get what it wants even when that desire is not aligned with the greater will, because the greater will intends for you to learn from your choices so that you will choose more wisely in the future.
For this reason, there are no wrong choices. All choices lead to greater wisdom, and what could be wrong with that? So, poor choices—ones that cause suffering—are part of the perfect unfolding of life. Such choices are an expected part of life and not a problem for the Perfection and do not mar it. When growth and evolution are part of the Perfection, then choices that lead to growth can only be perfect as well. The Perfection is such that it was designed to bring people Home to the realization of their true nature. Since all choices lead Home, no course that anyone might take can be off-course or wrong.
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"Profoundly insightful and potentially life-changing. And since we are all ultimately ‘one in Christ,’ I am willing to say that if the Christ Spirit is still speaking to us now, I believe He would say things very much like the teachings contained in this trilogy. Bravo!” –D. Z.
“If you can read this book, you will become a different person. It’s full of practical information and blessings, a special gift from Gina Lake and the master Jesus.” –Efrain Blasini
“Reading this channeled message from Jesus is like taking a deep breath of fresh air and allowing it to flow and nourish our entire body and then slowly exhaling too and allowing this to replenish and nourish our bodies, minds, and souls. It is written so simply and clearly and is the taste of truth.” –Eileen L.
“If this trilogy is not from Jesus, then Gina Lake is an absolute genius. It is my sincere opinion that this book can save people many years of suffering. There are so many treasures to absorb." –Ruan
“A game-changer. WOW! This book is so, so, so very practical. It is perhaps the best book I have read in a long time. It has nothing at all to do with religion. It is like talking to the best psychiatrist in the world and becoming internally free as a result.” –David G.
"Gina is like The Beatles. I will buy, description unseen, any books she puts out. Each one is a number one hit. I am forever indebted to Gina for stabilizing my awakening." –Ira C.
“Are you ready for your life to change? Read this book, and your life will be changed for the better, forever. A must read for anyone ready to surpass ego consciousness and lead a more loving, fulfilling life as the True Self.” –Amazon Customer
“Gina's channeling of Christ gives you practical day to day tools and strategies on the path to greater self knowledge, self-mastery, and understanding. The messages and advice are full of love and hope for us all. This is the most significant received material I have come across since discovering the Course.” –A. C.
“This is a treasure from a wise and awakened teacher. I loved reading this book and feel grateful for having this great opportunity. A much needed and beautiful book that will live inside your heart for a long time!” –F. G
“The voice of the book is that of a gentle, patient, powerful, and wise teacher. I could feel and picture myself in the Presence of the One called Jesus. This is not a book about religion, but it is definitely about being both human and divine and awakening to our True Self. May it assist you as it is even now assisting me.” –G. H.
“This book made me feel like I was listening to someone who truly loves me and knows me. I found this book to be totally enlightening, honestly believable, and humanly compassionate. This is not a religious book but, rather, speaks to us almost with a nuts and bolts approach about how to find the Divine within us.” –Sally S.
“The idea of Jesus providing these writings seemed really whacky when I first heard it, but the teachings are so full of Love, Light, and Clarity that the Heart isn't concerned with its origin. We know truth when it makes us glow with peace, joy, understanding, and love. These writings are direct from the light of Truth.” –I. T
Books by Gina
Browse All Books
- Angels, Masters, and Guides
- Cycles of the Soul
- What Jesus Wants You to Know
- In the World but Not of It
- The Shift
- All Grace
- Awakening Love
- The Jesus Trilogy
- A Heroic Life
- Jesus Speaking Series
- Faith, Facts, & Fiction
- Ten Teachings for One World
- From Stress to Stillness
- Choosing Love
- Embracing the Now
- Living in the Now
- Being Happy
- Radical Happiness
- Return to Essence