“If you are afraid a certain thing will happen, if you hesitate, stew and avoid the unknown, it will (happen); but if you plunge into the fear, if you boldly meet it with courage, with endless possibilities and tireless determination at the ready, a resolution not only must emerge, but is inevitable.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Change and tragedy and pain are so important. They crack you open and bring you back to innocence and unknowing by providing an experience you know nothing about. They are not the only threshold to innocence, but they are highly underused and rarely appreciated.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“What you fight or wage war against only gets stronger with your resistance. Fighting happens when you are afraid of the unknown. If you view the unknown as a sort of friend or life companion, every situation and relationships works to your advantage. Can you settle in to this kind of ease?” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Surrender to ease. Surrender to being loved. Surrender knowing the limits of how far you can go. Relax into curiosity and let it reveal the wonder of your unknown.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“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
“When you let resistance (tightness in the body and mind) be the cue to feel deeply, to expand your humility and be at ease in the face of the unknown, you not only transcend ideas and thoughts that no longer work (though at one point they may have), you act with absolute intelligent acuity and everything falls in your favor.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Running from fear is not courage. Courage is leaning into free-fall of the unknown. It is confronting fear by enCOURAGing those relationships and situations which bring it to the surface, to face them boldly and with bull-dog determination yawp, “Bring it on!” again and again and again.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“There is less time and effort in forgiveness, with an increase in energy, than there is when entertaining familiarity with your fear of the unknown.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you do not fear the unknown, the unknown will be kind to you.” -Paulo Coelho
“We try to control that (and who) we are most afraid of losing, which is exactly what we must let go of in order to be free. Holding on to the way things “should look” makes you rigid and rots you from the inside out. Trust life. Trust the Unknown.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
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