“Resistance training is necessary to build strength and definition in the body. A level of resistance is also essential in the building of inner fitness. The more opposition, the more wisdom, strength, and inner freedom there is available to you. Obstacles are opportunities. Difficulties with situations and people are your chance to beef up your fortitude.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Lasting freedom is not had by eliminating the restraints of your outer world. It is an intrinsic effect of making your inner world limitless.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Comparison is a form of torture you inflict upon yourself when you refuse to see your unique brilliance.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
Some of us run from people and situations that cause us to look at ourselves honestly, at those things that seem too difficult to face. What the uncomfortable situations and relationships have to show us is as important as a great work of art or fine poetry or profound scripture. They are truth in metaphor […]
“One of the most difficult things you can do is to let yourself be happy.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“When you over-protect, you enable. You cut those you love off at the psychological knees, handicapping them with your inability to trust their inner strength. Stop it. You are doing the world (and our race) a disservice.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“He who would be what he ought to be must stop being who he is.” -Meister Eckhart
“Behaviors can become viral, devour the authenticity of everyone infected. Unless you watch your behaviors as you would a potential danger, they will take from you the most precious currency: attention and choice and freedom.” -AJ Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“‘My car’, ‘my God’. ‘my country’, ‘my degree’, ‘my beliefs’, ‘my anxiety and fear’ are all threads in the suit of the self, of the ego. Understanding how and why they are woven together is the unraveling of the straight jacket binding your inner freedom.” -AmyJalapeño! amyjalapeno.com
“Inner self-reliance means you have a strong sense of who you are without titles, without achievements, without family, social groups, or religion. Inner self-reliance is who you are without all of these things, which is (ironically) what you are meant to be with them.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
