“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.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“What if you didn’t need to process or accept any negative feelings you were having?”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Acceptance is a whole different kind of maturity.
It is a gift of freedom to self more than to others.”