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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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We live in a description of reality.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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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