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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
Story
Stories
Change
World
Aspiration
Perception
Growth

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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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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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 all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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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 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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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We live in a description of reality.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
Jean Houston