“What is beautiful, healing, and truthful now will not be in the clutches of a desire to keep them alive. They are dynamic, living things, subject to the individuals they serve and cannot be controlled or contained.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Control does not protect you from hurt. It shields you from love.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Your greatest contribution is not to say something clever or be in control, be on top of every situation. It is not to have everyone around you admire you or do what you say. Your greatest contribution to the world and to those you love would be to perfect silence, to listen, to seek understanding, to not […]
“When you are challenged, stretched, and shaped by life, surrender to its wisdom. You’ve never been here before. It has. It’s OK to be a little nervous, but if you attempt to control the situation, you will suffer, so let it teach you.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“A convenient commitment is not always a healthy one. Disrupting your scope of control might be the best thing for you.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“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, […]
“What you attempt to control is your undoing. What you want to control and let go of is the way of inner freedom. Let life teach you how to live.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“In the process of waiting for the perfect moment, for conditions to be exactly what you think they should be, you will miss out on what it is you are waiting for.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Those that demand the most from you usually give very little. They inadvertently play games of control and when you don’t play along, will blame you for their emptiness. But those who love authentically take you as you are and will ask nothing they are not ready and willing to give.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Control over any given situation is an illusion. Even how we react to them is (in part) out of our hands, because we are bound by the conditioning of our past. There is only one point of control, one point of choice: the instant we decide to let go of control. And in that pinpoint of time we see more, feel more, perceive more than we ever did before.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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