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Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You QUOTES

Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You QUOTES

1 " The more I was afraid of getting hurt, the more cautious I was, and this impacted my ability to deepen my relationships with others. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

2 " If my mind is busy thinking about things like how someone hurt or upset me and how I can protect myself or get back at them, I’m too busy in my head to enjoy the present moment. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

3 " Next time you are feeling road rage or any other kind of anger, consider that the anger isn’t telling you about the outer situation, but is instead just reflecting your own thinking in that moment, and that it is pointing out to you a lack of clarity. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

4 " If we see that we don’t get to control our thinking, that we don’t choose what thoughts pop up in a split second, then we will feel a full range of emotions and there is nothing to do about it. Often trying to do something about a feeling we have reinforces it rather than allowing it to pass naturally. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

5 " What if you didn’t need to process or accept any negative feelings you were having? "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

6 " I hadn’t ever considered that guilt was simply a feeling, and that any meaning attached to it was made up. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

7 " Guilt simply cannot tell me whether I am a good person or a bad person. There is no chart on which I can check the amount of guilt I’m feeling and see how it corresponds to my “goodness” or otherwise. Guilt is a reflection of my thinking about a certain action or behavior I have taken, or not taken, in the past. Guilt does not and cannot change the past. It often doesn’t even stop a person from taking the same action again in similar circumstances. "

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8 " Forgiveness doesn’t make sense when you understand that someone’s actions can’t make you feel anything. Similarly, someone feeling bad can’t make me feel good or satisfied or content. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

9 " Your guilty thinking is only held in place by your thinking. Not engaging with it, not analyzing it, not thinking about it will allow it to pass right on by—as it was always meant to do. What a gift to give yourself. "

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10 " The more I saw fear for what it was—a reflection of my thinking—the easier it was for my thinking to return to loving thoughts. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

11 " When all other thoughts leave us, we are left with love - even in the direst of circumstances. There is power in love. We do not need to be victims of circumstance. We do not need to be afraid. We do not need to fear those who commit crimes or who dislike us. We simply need to allow love to emerge. When we do this, we tap into our own source of unlimited power. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

12 " It is often in our lowest moments that we find hope. "

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13 " We often underestimate the impact we have on others. "

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14 " For my own part, I know that I have been mean, selfish, unkind and judgmental towards others at times. Does this make me a bad person? I used to think so. However, I think it is a side effect of forgetting who we really are. "

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15 " Perhaps what bullies need is not to be shamed or given a taste of their own medicine, but a reminder of who they are. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

16 " Our feelings serve as indicators of our state of mind, and our state of mind in turn impacts our performance. "

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17 " My feelings of anger always seemed to be telling me what an idiot someone else was – how wrong they were and how right I was. However, as I explored my feelings, specifically anger, I realised that I’d never known anyone who’d gotten smarter as they’d gotten angrier. "

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18 " When I started to realise that I couldn’t possibly know how I felt about conducting a task before I did it, I stopped using my feelings as a barometer for deciding which tasks to do. I simply started doing the ones that made sense to do first, which was a far better strategy for being more productive. "

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19 " I invite you to think of anyone against whom you hold any judgements or resentments. Ask yourself if these people really did hurt you or whether your hurt feelings are reflections of your own thinking about their actions. If so, what if you did not need to struggle to forgive them? "

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20 " Acceptance is only necessary if we give circumstances or other people the power to make us feel anything. "

― , Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You