“There is no release from your humanity. There is no paradise. There are only brief respites between chaos, only beauty pressed between pain; and you are the container of it all. You cannot cut out different bits of you; but you can love them and consider them with wonder.” -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
“To be vulnerable, lean in and risk what you think you know about a person, situation or condition is the requirement for the deepest value, for the richest experience. It may seem difficult, but it is actually the easiest, most natural thing you can do. There’s nothing to sacrifice, no painful proof to provide for your worthiness, and it’s not even a matter of deserving. It is simply feeling the wonder and beauty and love that is free and available to you now.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“If you believe you do not deserve a wonderful thing, if you have spent years trying to earn it, then you are stricken with a blindness. If you will not see, then listen to this: the thing of wonder was always yours. You need only to feel and enjoy it.” -AJ Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Inner silence is the event horizon to a vast ocean of wisdom and wonder.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com Your job, your titles, degrees, your home (whatever that looks like), your car and reputation, your religion, your relationship with God (or Universe, the Buddha, etc.), even your relationships, your name and ancestry and state of your mental […]
“Using your mind honestly, virtuously, and independent of any authority is vital for the truth and very different from having the answers to life and death and living. Those answers are highly over-rated and staking your life in them blocks you from fully feeling the loss of things, which makes appreciating the strength of newness […]
“My home is amid the wonder of stars, the quiet of dawn, the smell after rain.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“Wonder is the purple cool-aid of science.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com There is the value of the worldview created by science. There is the beauty and the wonder of the world that is discovered through the results of these new experiences. The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, […]
“Distraction gives children an advantage. It allows them to move through emotional difficulty without attachment, with ease, with brand new focus and wonder. But to an adult, distraction is pure poison to their dreams, goals, and legacy (if any is left behind).” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com
“What you feel internally is what you have externally. Consent to the warming of your soul, to wonder, and joy. Let go of control and fall entirely into these things. What comes of it on the outside will exceed your imaginings.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeño.com
