“Do you use others as an excuse to keep your pain alive? Do you fictionalize, exaggerate, and form conclusions using just your limited perception? Is there always someone to blame for the way you feel? Then you are toxic. Shift your attention inward and be accountable for your experience and you won’t be. It literally […]
“The victim lets circumstances, the choices of others, and their own predictions (of how others might react to their choices) shape their path. The creator sees these things as opportunities and uses obstacles to amass and integrate fresh, new possibilities that will reshape their most stubborn convictions. They don’t avoid or run away. They face, lean in. They are as malleable as the cosmos that created them and in turn become the breath of the universe.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Living in the moment is not leaving a choice up to God or the Universe. Being present is making a choice with great conviction, only you don’t know how it is going to work out. The ‘how’ is what you turn over to a higher power. Indecision is the path of the fearful, the coward, […]
“Going with the flow of life does not mean you are a victim to (seemingly) uncontrollable circumstances. You are a partner with the circumstances, people and experiences before you – precisely what you have subconsciously drawn into your life to learn what you need to learn, to understand the fear, to observe and receive, to […]
“Courage is not merely prevailing over the various circumstances life throws at you. It is boldly seeking out those situations that dare fear to face you. Then fear is neutralized once and for all.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“You will never be a victim if you trust in the all-pervading lesson waiting behind every conscious (and unconscious) action of another.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Only when you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.” -Eckhart Tolle, A NEW EARTH