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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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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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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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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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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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 all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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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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