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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.
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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
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We live in a description of reality.
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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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