Laura Huxley Quotes
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At one time or another the more fortunate among us make three startling discoveries. Discovery number one: Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse. Discovery two: Making others feel better is much more fun than making them feel worse. Discovery three: Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.
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I call children "our ultimate investment."
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the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
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Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.
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The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
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You make love for the pleasure and the passion and for the love that two people have for each other. But then there is also this other thing. Are we going to make love to have a child? One has to be clear to do that.
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The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.
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Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.
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I have seen several deaths, too many deaths in my life, and they were all different. Each one was different. It didn't seem to be necessarily connected with the life of the person. Some people that were not particularly developed or outstanding or spiritual died very easily. Some other people were on a very high level and had a difficult time in dying.
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I find beauty almost everywhere. Now more and more I find almost everything beautiful. That is why I have great difficulty in throwing away things because I think they are quite beautiful. Even the garbage, but I have to throw that away!
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Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.
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I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done.
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Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.
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I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.
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How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!
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I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.
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Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.
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For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.
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What I say is focus your mind and respect your body. But mostly love your heart. I think that is where to begin, from there and then it goes out.
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You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!
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One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.
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Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.
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I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.
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Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.
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You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.
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We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.
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The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.
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My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.
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It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.
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If you love your heart, this can be transmitted to other people. I mean you can help anybody that wants to do the same.
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