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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
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Teens

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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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 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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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 live in a description of reality.
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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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