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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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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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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 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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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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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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 all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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