Sweet Sharing Quotes

“I started to see that rather than overthinking every decision, I could simply decide to make a decision—any decision. I would learn something whatever happened. Each time I did this it seemed that my ability to tap into my gut increased and my tendency to spend too long analyzing diminished.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Do you compare your life to someone else’s “highlight reel” on social media? What if you were to drop your thoughts of comparison to others and just take steps towards whatever you want in life?”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Take a few moments to see if you can notice this silence beneath all of your thinking, ideas, beliefs and stories.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“My intellect is a wonderful thing and it is helpful, but I now see that there is another, deeper place of intelligence within me—and everyone else. Once we tap into it we can begin to transform our lives.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“An insight is just a thought I’ve not had before.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“When we let go of any misunderstandings we may have, this gives rise to new thinking and new ideas; it unleashes creativity and helps us have a better experience of life.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Our thinking is not a fixed entity, and therefore it makes no sense to try to change it.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Comparison to others is like a mind virus that keeps us small our whole lives. It keeps us in a victim mindset, and through it we give away our power to things outside our control.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“It’s easy to make assumptions about people, especially on social media. We see a few photographs and some updates and we compare the few highlights we get with the worst impressions we have of our own lives.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“The more I was afraid of getting hurt, the more cautious I was, and this impacted my ability to deepen my relationships with others.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“I hadn’t ever considered that guilt was simply a feeling, and that any meaning attached to it was made up.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“What if you didn’t need to process or accept any negative feelings you were having?”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Acceptance is only necessary if we give circumstances or other people the power to make us feel anything.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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?”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Happiness is an inside job.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Our feelings serve as indicators of our state of mind, and our state of mind in turn impacts our performance.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“Perhaps what bullies need is not to be shamed or given a taste of their own medicine, but a reminder of who they are.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“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.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“We often underestimate the impact we have on others.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You

“It is often in our lowest moments that we find hope.”
― Ankush Jain, Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You