“Do not tell others about God’s compassion. Do not preach your religion or tout your alliance with God. Be compassion. Be forgiveness. Be love and kindness and there is no need to convince anyone of anything, because a greater power is flowing through you, one which needs no endorsement and is beyond contestation.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Every authority, mentor, guru, or spiritual leader who has your best interest in mind persuades you to be your own.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Honor what you feel in your bones. Be true to it. Follow it always. It is more important than the truth, belief, and opinion of a leader, mentor, or loved one. If you ignore it, if you go with the crowd when your gut is telling you otherwise, you give up soul-sustaining integrity for the […]
“Do not rely on the rickety psychological scaffolding of regurgitated beliefs. The longest held belief does not make it the truest. Sift through your thoughts. Doubt. Question. Deconstruct what you think is true about the world and about you. Make yourself innocent again. Make your perspective fresh. Add your best to humanity.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com [The original […]
“No matter where you run, no matter what ties you break the truth with always follow. Be courageous! Sever the bonds where your brilliance is suppressed.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com [from original hot! quote on 6/23/12: truth + courage + brilliance]
“The key to inner freedom is to not latch on to any person, thing, or idea that can answer what you cannot right now. There are no plausible stories for the unanswerable. There are no real endings containing ‘just because’ or ‘it’s God’s will,’ etc. The way to inner freedom is to feel comfortable with the unknown, with uncertainty, and to not fill in those spaces with stories and assumptions and fairy-tales and then call them reality. You will never know all of the answers. Never, ever, as long as you are human will that happen.” -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
“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
“Certainty about what will happen to your soul when you die is practicing a spiritual short-sightedness. Conviction that what you feel right now is a prophetic view of your future is certainty and freedom and salvation.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Those that transform the world do not attempt to convince humanity of ideologies with check lists and patriarchs, or any ideology for that matter. They do not preach what is popular, nor do they encourage regurgitated, mechanized living. They inspire, by example, others to live fresh, new visions of their lives. Have courage and transform the world. Break the status quo. Obtain the certainty that only comes from risking every belief you are sure of and feel the ethereal integrity of inner freedom.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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