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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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New York City
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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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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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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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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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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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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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