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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
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Humanity
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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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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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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.
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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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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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