Laura Esquivel Quotes
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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I like vibrant colors.
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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.