“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
“You keep close what you value most. And to some, suffering and separation are so precious, so much a part of their identity and so familiar that they struggle resigning their internal torment to love and joy and freedom.” – Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Only when unification of light and dark, good and bad, the seen and unseen occurs in the mind can there ever be entire understanding.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Relief is an absolute life changer. When you feel stress, alienation, or despair, think, pretend, do anything you can to feel relief (even if you have to imagine it) and you will see worlds shift and marvels unveiled where you thought all was lost.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you feel something other than compassion for any living thing, then you are viewing that being, creature, etc. through the scrim of ego, through beliefs and ideas and feelings that prevent you from seeing the truth and distinguishing reality. Dissolving those internal blocks is the purpose, path, and destiny of the human race and any resistance to it is pain and suffering, a feeling of separation, segregation, self righteousness and despair; which ironically, supplies more fuel for your purpose and presents more opportunities to dissolve the illusion.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You are more than the limited perceptions of others. Use their fear and alienation of you, their separatist words and actions as fuel to go deeper, to discover the boundless strength of vulnerability.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Why do you ignore me? Why do you divide and separate? It is as if the only parts of me that exist are those most convenient to you.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Awareness is not analysis. The point of awareness IS authentic action. There is no separation, no duality. They are one and the same.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You can never fully know the life of another. You have only fragments, bits, scraps of their words and others’ perceptions of them. One act does not define a person. There is so much more to each one of us. Exclusion is extraordinarily destructive and is the basis for the most profound suffering. Entertaining it […]
“True friendship never ends. There are bubbles of time where it seems like it might; but those moments are room makers, soul diggers, mind stretchers for it to deepen, to grow stronger and then unfold when you meet again.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
