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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.
Jean Houston
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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
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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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I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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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 ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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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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Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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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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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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