“If you want to really reach someone, descend to your depths, grab your greatest weakness by the neck and pull it out. Take a look at it from every angle. Don’t judge it, try to change it, or slap a label on it. See it for everything that it is and then put it back inside. At some unexpected moment you’ll be able to see the weakness of another, and without their awareness perform the same magic. And in time, they will do it for themselves.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“In all the world there is one thing that nurtures every connection, every friendship and marriage: a proximity to and harmonious relationship with silence.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“True friendship never ends. There are bubbles of time where it seems like it might; but those moments are room makers, soul diggers, mind stretchers for it to deepen, to grow stronger and then unfold when you meet again.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Being physically close to someone is not necessarily the key to making a relationship work. You can be in the same room with a person and as psychologically far away from them as any stranger. Close proximity of the soul bends time and space to makes miracles happen. Communicate. Get on the same page. And […]
The more interested you are in figuring out what other people should do, the more invested your time (regardless how much you care for them), the less aware you are of your own internal process and progress. “If you love someone, let them figure their stuff on their own. Be there in support as they […]
“Trust, loyalty, and friendship are always within reach. If you practice feeling these, you will see them. If you rehearse the opposite, you won’t.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeño.com
It was July 21st, 2013, one of the highest traveling months of the year. The male airline employee at the gate was tall and gray-haired. I was flying stand-by. “Is there any way I could find out where I’m at on the stand-by list?” I asked. (I checked an hour earlier and a female airline […]
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