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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
Jean Houston
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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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.
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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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 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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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 tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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