“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
“Your bliss is another’s burden. Your ‘must have’ is their irritation. You don’t need to share similar ideals with another person to confirm or feel better about your own. Get comfortable connecting with others who have contrasting lives from your own. Learn to love the variety and differences of others.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You can believe the most profound philosophy and brilliant ideals, but they will mean nothing and have no effect unless you have the courage, determination, and fierce attention to turn inward daily, hourly even and with absolute humility to take an honest look at whether or not your thoughts and actions match what you believe. And then when they do, be ready for it all to change. Isn’t life wonderful.” -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
“Persistent struggle and unease with the compliance to a set of rules, ideals, or dogmas cannot be eased by further consent to them, but by freedom from them.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“To think without being a prisoner to thoughts and beliefs, to creeds and ideals is to love without bounds, is to live in perfect freedom.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is no striving toward being good. Good is always in you. Either you let love rise to the surface or you push it deeper into shadow with to-do lists, ideals and expectations. Burn the list. Abandon the ideals and expectations. Step out of that old skin and do what feels light and free and […]
