“You like to think you are in control, but you are not. You are at the mercy of childhood conditioning, your mammalian brain, of relentless outside influences inflating your fears and strengthening the ego. The only control you really have is in letting go of it, in letting the loss and suffering, the abandonment, resentment, […]
“There is no edge, no arrival, no pinnacle in life. There are only push and pull, ease and strain, the cognitive shallows and depths. All these are forms of breath and we exist in the Universe’s great inhale.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The victim lets circumstances, the choices of others, and their own predictions (of how others might react to their choices) shape their path. The creator sees these things as opportunities and uses obstacles to amass and integrate fresh, new possibilities that will reshape their most stubborn convictions. They don’t avoid or run away. They face, lean in. They are as malleable as the cosmos that created them and in turn become the breath of the universe.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The unfortunate underestimate the power of uncertainty and overestimate the security of being right.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“It is best to be unassuming going in to each moment – to end anticipation and prediction – to wait, to watch, to move precisely when it is time to move.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Let your convictions come and go. Let your beliefs die. Give birth to new ones. Let those die too. Life is made up of countless mini-deaths and untold births. These are the inhale and exhale of your life. You need them. They are your spiritual breath.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeño.com
“To identify with the body, with illness, with limitation is to solidify the ego – to make the unreal, real. How then, do you bring what is real into form? Simple. You consider it, you give it room to breath and transform. And by God, keep your sticky little ego from thinking it had anything […]
“If you find yourself making present choices based on what someone did a decade ago, fearing they will do it again, ignoring your part in instigating it, as well as everything courageous, loving, and trustworthy that they have proved since, well, fear is a priority in your life. And fear is not such a great […]
Everyone works through fear in their own way. And what a wonderful world it would be if we didn’t let our inner monologue become apart of our dialog with others. (a little something I did yesterday. *sigh* Dammit.) Everyone needs a safe place to vent. Some of us use journals to work it out. Some […]
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