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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Enchanted
Overwhelmed
Occasionally
Mostly

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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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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 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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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