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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
Teens
Healing
Motivation
Extraordinary
Waiting
Within
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Released

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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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 soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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