“If you hesitate or second-guess or hold back feeling joy and freedom and fun just because it might disturb the sensibilities of another, then you are rehearsing smallness. It doesn’t matter if that person is a parent, sibling, your spouse, or best friend. The divine part of you never requires the practices of limitations, so that you are worthy of wonderful things.
“The only sacrifice necessary to live your purest self and most authentic, extraordinary life is to surrender your propensity of making choices based on abating the possible negative reactions of another.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Those that feel deeply, that are unapologetic and unabashed by intense fears (not of the world, but of their most intimate relationships) are humanity’s trailblazers. The rest regurgitate and mimic brilliance.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you focus on the lack of time, there will never be enough. If you insist others change for you to love, you will repel warmth and affection. If you perpetually seek certainty and resist familiarity with the unknown, you will prevent understanding. The means is always the end. If you continually feel the lack of something, that is what you will prove to yourself and the world.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“A vibrant imagination can be the playground for your inner genius or entertain your darkest demon. It turns towards the strongest feeling and then has its way with it entirely.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Certainty about what will happen to your soul when you die is practicing a spiritual short-sightedness. Conviction that what you feel right now is a prophetic view of your future is certainty and freedom and salvation.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You will never know a friend, a spouse, a family member well. There is always another layer, a line of internal processing you will never know about. The closest you will ever get to knowing another person well is to feel, in unison and with significant depth, a particular emotion – a language which transmits volumes.” -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 be vulnerable, lean in and risk what you think you know about a person, situation or condition is the requirement for the deepest value, for the richest experience. It may seem difficult, but it is actually the easiest, most natural thing you can do. There’s nothing to sacrifice, no painful proof to provide for your worthiness, and it’s not even a matter of deserving. It is simply feeling the wonder and beauty and love that is free and available to you now.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
