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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
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Philosopher
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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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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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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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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