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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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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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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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 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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