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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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