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" 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
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" 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
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" Problems seem to exist, but problems are actually illusory and part of everyone’s illusory reality. “Problem” is a concept, not a reality. The mind turns something into a problem by telling you it is a problem. In reality, problems do not exist. You cannot touch, see, hear, smell, or taste a problem or sense it in more subtle ways, because there is nothing there to sense. A problem is imagined. "
― Gina Lake , Beliefs, Emotions, and the Creation of Reality: New Teachings from Jesus