“Less drama, more peace. Less struggle, more ease. Less distraction, more intimacy. Less diversion, more focus. Less things and thoughts, more space, more clarity. Less division, more unity. Less judgment, more understanding. Less rigidity of views, more creativity. Less absolutes, more possibilities and more solutions. Less fear, more courage, more authenticity. Less hatred, hostility and disgust, […]
“Those addicted to an emotion will say and do whatever it takes to feel it. They don’t want the truth or to understand. They don’t want facts. They want a fix. So when another person does something they do not agree with or approve of, they use it as permission for them to indulge in disgust, fear, […]
“There are billions of realities on this earth, but there is only one that you contribute to and it is incomplete, impartial, and most likely biased. But when you approach the realities of others with curiosity and a desire for understanding, those limiting points of view shrink. There is more room for love and you […]
“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
“You cannot have compassion without understanding. You cannot have understanding without autonomous thought. And you cannot have autonomous thought when you have faith in another’s.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Everything is temporary. If you take one moment, one thought, one feeling and make it the sum of your life, the result is an inclination to give up. It is despair. But if you accept that your capacity is immense, that you can care for many worlds within your one using compassion and understanding, then life becomes entertaining and joyful – a continual metamorphosis, written in your DNA for generations to come. Your greatest contribution to the world is not the world as it is now, but to you as you are now and for those that follow.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is a distinct difference between what you hear and what a person is actually saying when you listen to them using what you know, what you’ve learned, what you want to say next. If you truly want to understand and connect, forget everything you know.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“With courage comes a new frontier, a path few go out to meet or see or understand. When you walk with courage, you choose a degree of aloneness and obscurity. Invisibility is for the courageous, those that desire most to be seen.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you want to connect or influence a person, listen. While you listen, you may hear an inner dialog that fills in the blanks and spaces and gives you all sorts of insight about this person. If you follow it, you will get lost. If you are brave, you will realize every criticism, judgement, and compliment that comes to mind is your own psyche telling you what you need to work on next. Then, once that is all out-of-the-way, you will listen to others with a fierce understanding of your shared humanity.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you focus on the lack of time, there will never be enough. If you insist others change for you to love, you will repel warmth and affection. If you perpetually seek certainty and resist familiarity with the unknown, you will prevent understanding. The means is always the end. If you continually feel the lack of something, that is what you will prove to yourself and the world.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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