"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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Laura Huxley quotes (page 3 of 4)
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"Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another."
"Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time."
"If you love your heart, this can be transmitted to other people. I mean you can help anybody that wants to do the same."
"We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging."
"There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever."
"Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses."
"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."
"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."
"Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being."
"I call children "our ultimate investment.""
"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."
"There is danger in everything that we do."
"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."
"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."
"How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!"