“When you are free, you internally answer to no one, no thing, no expectation or guru or god. You are absolutely, irrevocably accountable and there is nothing more terrifying, more overwhelming, or more beautiful, liberating and spiritually substantial in the whole wide world of existence.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Never mind your ideas of how things should look, your expectations of how things must be. Life will scramble all of that into an unrecognizable chaos. The difficulty, the joy, the privilege is in being undone and then creatively reshaping yourself into a form you never imagined could be so beautiful.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Giving and expecting something in return is not giving. It’s manipulation.” -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
“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.” -C.G. Jung
“Wait and listen without ego or identification to any ideology or religion, shared grief or group of people. Wait and listen without inner dialog, without attaching previous judgements to what is, without anticipation and expectation. Wait and listen and trust that everything in the past, all that is, and the entirety to come is a part of one whole body of good.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“The sacrifice for bliss is not hard work or exacting will or giving up things you enjoy, so that you can have them at a later time. It is the surrendering of the ego, of expectations and struggle. The means are the end. Your journey is not from one emotion to another. Your journey, your destination is your predominant feeling now.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“To radiate the qualities you would like from another (e.g. listening, acceptance, attention, etc.) and to give them without expectation takes an incredible amount of courage. It means leaning into vulnerability and being utterly exposed. It is the high price lasting relationships pay to stay connected. At first it is awkward, difficult, even uncomfortable; and […]
“If every possibility were available to you, if every expectation was wiped out, if ‘good’ and ‘bad’ were mere colors on a spiritual palate… What would you desire? What would you prefer? What would you truly want? Now, get out of the way and let the Universe give it to you..” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Not one ‘to do’ list leads to presence, to being, to authentic living. Not one.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
