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. Laura Huxley More Quotes by Laura Huxley More Quotes From Laura Huxley My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today. Laura Huxley psychedelic today firsts Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small. Laura Huxley clothes shoes ties Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty. Laura Huxley letting-go years thinking the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another. Laura Huxley receiver giver yardsticks 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. Laura Huxley littles people world 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. Laura Huxley light darkness struggle Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses. Laura Huxley speaking-out senses soul The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses. Laura Huxley soul age way I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature. Laura Huxley spirituality body believe 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 focus attention thinking Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve. Laura Huxley accepting healthy attention Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings. Laura Huxley age feelings people You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important. Laura Huxley focus important mind 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. Laura Huxley love-yourself love-you heart 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. Laura Huxley love-you heart thinking 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. Laura Huxley investment gun children 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 generations our-society intelligent Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire. Laura Huxley fire perfect mean 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. Laura Huxley unfinished-work dying thinking 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. Laura Huxley dying spiritual people