Three Principles Quotes

“Despite the sale of millions of copies of "How to.." books and programmes each year, very few people take actions and put what they learn into practice. Here´s why. The "how to..." book has usually been written by someone who accomplished something of value. They then capture the steps they took to accomplish it in book, training course, or multimedia programme. Innocently, they´re sharing the symptoms of their accomplishment, but not the causes. If the symptoms are like apples, the causes are the tree that grew them. When people buy "how to" books and programmes, they´re unknowingly trying to glue someone else´s apples onto their tree, without realizing an essential fact: it doesn´t work that way!”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“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

“We do not have any power over external events. Conversely, events have no power to cause us to think or feel any particular way, even though they may adversely affect our physical surroundings. What we do have is an amazing power; the power to choose the way we look at events, which, in turn, effects our feelings about them. Choose wisely, the thoughts you entertain.”
― Elizabeth M. Lykins, Reflections on Transcendence

“It is only when we fight what already IS, as adversity lands on our doorstep, that we get into trouble. We cannot change what already is, no matter how hard we may try. We can accept what is, while retaining the power to choose, whether or not we allow adversity to disrupt our inner calm. -The Hidden Beauty of Adversity, Issue 4, Magnificent Metamorphosis Magazine”
― Elizabeth M. Lykins

“It is often in our lowest moments that we find hope.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Happiness is an inside job.”
― 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

“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

“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

“What if you didn’t need to process or accept any negative feelings you were having?”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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