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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
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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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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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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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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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