Our task is to find ways in which the energy evoked by negative emotions can be transformed, in a manner compatible with civilized living, into harml… - Laura Huxley

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Our task is to find ways in which the energy evoked by negative emotions can be transformed, in a manner compatible with civilized living, into harmless-or better-into positively useful energy. Our purpose, then, is to become expert and voluntary energy transformers instead of involuntary energy victims. Like everything else, this takes practice.

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About Laura Huxley

Laura Huxley (née Archera; 2 November 1911 – 13 December 2007) was a musician, author, psychotherapist and lecturer. She was born in Italy and later lived in the USA. She was married to the author Aldous Huxley from 1956 until his death in 1963.

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Birth Name: Laura Archera
Alternative Names: Laura Archera Huxley
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Let us initiate a change in ourselves, for then, and then only, shall we be able to effect a change in other people. When we change, others change too. And circumstances change in a manner that is almost miraculous. The initial change has to come from inside ourselves.

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How often does pleasure pass us by because we are not ready to accept it! When we are preoccupied or in pain it is hard even to see, let alone pluck, the flowers of pleasure on our way. We may even walk blindly over them. ("Open the Door to Pleasure")

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