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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
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Entire
Moment
Universe
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Cosmos

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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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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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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 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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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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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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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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We live in a description of reality.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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