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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
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Perception
Growth
Story
Stories
Change
World
Aspiration

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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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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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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 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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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'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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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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