(original post 6/15/12, hot! quote rehab date: 2/23/15) “You don’t have to ‘do’ anything. If you are authentic in this moment and then the next, you automatically make the world a better place.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is something seriously wrong with giving the critical, ungrateful and unaccountable what they want. And they (many unconsciously) use your guilt to get it.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Equanimity, presence and stillness will always bring more fulfillment than ‘doing the right thing’.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Put suspicion, hesitation, and pain in time out. Give love, trust, and freedom a chance. Feel what it means to receive.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Healing is practicing the opposite of that which broke you in the first place, that which you unknowingly pushed away and denied the joy of.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The ‘to do’ list of happiness is the pathway to hell. Authenticity is the road to freedom, to heaven, to bliss.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
This could be applied to sour behavior and tantrums (adult, adolescent, or those thrown by a two-year-old). But good, wonderful, blissful things can also be brought to zero when starved of attention. If you want to make a difference in the world, give the latter more (attention) and the former less. “The surest way to […]
“Isolation is the great lie and the great liberator.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Peace exists when the individual not only realizes they are limited by the whole of humanity, but that they exist and are free because of it.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The great destroyer of equanimity: assumption.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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