“When all of our thoughts and feelings relating to death are as accepted and appreciated as those connected to youth and love and passion for life, we will live in a world filled with harmony, equality, and endless creative solutions to problems we now consider hopeless.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“An extraordinary life requires extraordinary risk. Not in time or effort or will, but in allowing your perceptions to be vulnerable, including a few split second decisions made from your gut that will change the course of your life entirely. That’s what death does. That’s what change is. The courageous meet death before it happens. They change before life forces them to.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
Some of us run from people and situations that cause us to look at ourselves honestly, at those things that seem too difficult to face. What the uncomfortable situations and relationships have to show us is as important as a great work of art or fine poetry or profound scripture. They are truth in metaphor […]
“Ego is fear and panic, security and being certain. Love is understanding and truth, newness and adventure. There is no newness, no awareness or appreciation without dying and loss.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
Resisting understanding and fighting for a narrow view is what you do when your ego is in charge. It means the ego is in absolute fear of losing the emotions and thought patterns keeping it alive and it will stop at nothing to ensure you continue to identify with it, its wacky logic, and precious […]
“You can never fully know the life of another. You have only fragments, bits, scraps of their words and others’ perceptions of them. One act does not define a person. There is so much more to each one of us. Exclusion is extraordinarily destructive and is the basis for the most profound suffering. Entertaining it […]
“The sensible allow the death of thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions. The courageously wise invite them.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is no learning, transformation, or progress without the death of something. Better that death be an overused idea and outdated belief than a long-held dream or cherished relationship.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Loneliness, abandonment and despair are like oceans that fill your lungs. They press, press until your naked truth is pinned against an abyssal plain. They press until the ego disintegrates, until the inner immersion, until the suffocation by shadow. This is the sine qua non by which clean, pure love expands all your empty […]
“Pain is a deconstruction of the unnecessary, a melting of ego, and the gateway to the purest you.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com I cringe whenever I hear people talk about their life and choices in terms of “good” or “bad”. It is a harsh way to view our choices and an incredibly unkind way of treating […]
