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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

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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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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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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