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Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.
Laura Huxley
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Laura Huxley
Age: 96 †
Born: 1911
Born: November 2
Died: 2007
Died: December 13
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Motivational Speaker
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Laura Archera Huxley
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Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.
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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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the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
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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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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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There is danger in everything that we do.
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You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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