“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 […]
“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
“Your oddity is the path to your genius.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com [more to come…]
“Inner silence is the event horizon to a vast ocean of wisdom and wonder.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com Your job, your titles, degrees, your home (whatever that looks like), your car and reputation, your religion, your relationship with God (or Universe, the Buddha, etc.), even your relationships, your name and ancestry and state of your mental […]
“Using your mind honestly, virtuously, and independent of any authority is vital for the truth and very different from having the answers to life and death and living. Those answers are highly over-rated and staking your life in them blocks you from fully feeling the loss of things, which makes appreciating the strength of newness […]
“The more you recognize your own accumulated knowledge for what it is: insignificant, small, humble (compared to the vast whole of everything there is to know in the universe), the more intelligence, wisdom and limitless creativity open themselves up to you, the more access you have to genius.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Striving to be different is the opposite of individuality, originality, of creativity. To find your uniqueness, your contribution to the world, you must cease from forcing effort and enter the narrow doorway of non-thought. Clear the mind of your past. Cease anticipating the future. Settle into uncertainty, and genius will come to you.” -Amy Larson, […]
“The surrender of one’s thinking and decision-making is the greatest epidemic of humanity’s history. It is what plagues us now. It is a soul suicide. It strips an individual of sound faculty and immense creativity. It chokes their potential genius and is the requirement of many religions and all cults. Ironically, blind faith is a […]
“You cannot discover your own genius if you set personal limitations that soothe everyone else around you. The spark of brilliance does not exist because of expectations. It (genius) sets the standard.” -Amy Larson, AmyJalapeño.com
