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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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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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