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.

Laura Huxley

Categorized in : Intelligent Our Society Generations

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

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I call children "our ultimate investment." by Laura Huxley

I call children "our ultimate investment."

investment ultimate children

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it tog... by Laura Huxley

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

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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!

drug different race

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol... by Laura Huxley

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

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There is danger in everything that we do. by Laura Huxley

There is danger in everything that we do.

Yoga is a natural thing. by Laura Huxley

Yoga is a natural thing.

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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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Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteri... by Laura Huxley

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

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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.

discipline yoga teacher

Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

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The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage... by Laura Huxley

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

medicine differences poison

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

aging ignorance process

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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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.

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Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also... by Laura Huxley

Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.

toddler teenager powerful

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 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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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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The situation with children is not good in America, nor in other countries. It may be much worse in other countries. It is not just because of the lack of money. It is the lack of the awareness that children are very open, smart and knowing people when they are still very little. Afterwards they close down. Then they become like everyone and we have to work again to open up.

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