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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
Universe
Observer
Moments
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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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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've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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