mind + heart (daily hot! quote)
“Giving approval and/or receiving sanction from others limits, slows, stagnates. It stupefies the mind and heart.” -Amy Larson, amylarson.com
AmyJalapeño!
Regardless your beliefs, inner self-reliance is what moves us as human beings. These writings are dedicated to that inner strength.
individuality + creativity + spirituality (daily hot! quote)
“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
ego + learning + getting out of the way (daily hot! quote)
[this hot! quote has been rehabbed. see the updated version here.] “People learn what they need to know, when they need to know it. Just because they bump into you during that process doesn’t mean you ‘did’ anything.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
join me on 22 june, 2012 in the discovery of the indestructible
My copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s complete works is marked up with a zillion underlines and notes in the margins. It is colored with strips of sticky notes poking out of the top and sides of the volume. And his essay ‘Self-Reliance’ has been one of my greatest sources of strength as a single mother […]
Man is his own star…
Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest […]
AmyJalapeño! 