“Stories are wonderful escapes. They are instructive, entertaining, and therapeutic. Yet they are prisons if you believe your own. When you identify, cling to, and aim to convince others of your story (or stories) in trying to connect with them, you are in fact the narrator of division, limitation, and grief.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“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 […]
“Internalize everything without identifying with any of it.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Wait and listen without ego or identification to any ideology or religion, shared grief or group of people. Wait and listen without inner dialog, without attaching previous judgements to what is, without anticipation and expectation. Wait and listen and trust that everything in the past, all that is, and the entirety to come is a part of one whole body of good.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
