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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Healing
Motivation
Extraordinary
Waiting
Within
Coded
Released
Teens

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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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We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
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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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We live in a description of reality.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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