“Trying to instill the fear of God (or any fear at all) in a person that thinks independently is like trying to convince an already free human being they are not free. If you are this sort of preacher, if you must spend your time and energy convincing others to live a life the way […]
“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 […]
“Stories are wonderful escapes. They are instructive, entertaining, and therapeutic. Yet they are prisons if you believe your own. When you identify, cling to, and aim to convince others of your story (or stories) in trying to connect with them, you are in fact the narrator of division, limitation, and grief.” -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, […]
“You keep close what you value most. And to some, suffering and separation are so precious, so much a part of their identity and so familiar that they struggle resigning their internal torment to love and joy and freedom.” – Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“I can only understand and find real meaning and insight into those bits of fact that I relate to emotionally. This is my knowledge base. Procured by experience and refined (ironically) by exposure to variety, my knowledge base determines what and how much I comprehend; and if I attach my identity to any of it, if […]
“You may think you know what is best for someone else and how they should live, but you don’t. That is simply the ego distracting you from your own lessons, what is best for you and how you need to live.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Shame is the ego’s passive/aggressive marionette.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you feel something other than compassion for any living thing, then you are viewing that being, creature, etc. through the scrim of ego, through beliefs and ideas and feelings that prevent you from seeing the truth and distinguishing reality. Dissolving those internal blocks is the purpose, path, and destiny of the human race and any resistance to it is pain and suffering, a feeling of separation, segregation, self righteousness and despair; which ironically, supplies more fuel for your purpose and presents more opportunities to dissolve the illusion.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Internalize everything without identifying with any of it.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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