“The path of least resistance does not mean you settle for less. It means you do whatever it takes to feel good, to feel ease. It means you are not responsible for anyone’s happiness but your own. You don’t need to bend over backward to make other people happy or more comfortable. That’s not your job. It is there’s, and you are doing them a disservice by taking on the responsibility of their emotions. It is a weight you do not have to carry. The path of least resistance is to find which thoughts, which behaviors bring you joy and ease and enthusiasm. That’s your job.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“When you act with desperation or anger or fear, you literally make those emotions physical in form through that action. Wait. Then speak, make decisions, move when you feel love, enthusiasm, and joy. Don’t wait for someone or some thing to bring those emotions to you. Go out and get them! Do anything: listen to music, be alone in nature, appreciate anything that makes you happy. Then take action. When you appreciate every situation as an opportunity for you to practice this, every situation will work to your advantage. Bring bliss into physical form.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Happiness and good fortune may be used to refine our lives, but so may difficulty, grief, and pain. To make any emotion work in your favor commit to this: That each is, most certainly, temporary. By this devotion, you honor your humanity. By this allegiance, you wholly live. Feel the storm at the surface and […]
“Psychological suffering can be just as addictive as any mind altering drug, and (in some cases) almost as dangerous; because it subtly takes over your decision-making process, seducing you to postpone, tune out, even sabotage much needed moments of happiness.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Being present or ‘in the moment’ does not mean you are happy all of the time. It means your courage is so deep that you can face every aspect of your humanity (the joy, the loss, the pain and love, etc.) in all of its raw vulnerability and remain still.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Happiness, even bliss will pass your way; but if you feel undeserving of it, you will make great efforts to push it away, to keep it as distant as you would a harmful threat.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You cannot run from unhappiness and expect to find endless joy. Opposites are intertwined, forever orbiting and unable to exist without one another. But more than joy, there is freedom; and in freedom, there is love, which has no opposite. It simply is.” -AJ Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is no payment to be made for personal joy but your most perfect attention, your deepest gratitude and total dedication in bringing it into the world.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
