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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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New York City
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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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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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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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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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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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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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