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Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.

Laura Huxley

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Laura Huxley
Age: 96 †
Born: 1911
Born: November 2
Died: 2007
Died: December 13
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Documentary Filmmaker
Motivational Speaker
Musician
Philanthropist
Violinist
Writer
Turin
Italy
Laura Archera Huxley
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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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Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.
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Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.
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You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.
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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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If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.
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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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Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.
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Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication.
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I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.
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The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.
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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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Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in abortion, but still there are a large number of children that come in this world without being expected.
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Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.
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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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Be a little kinder to each other.
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Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.
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Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.
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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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They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?
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