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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Rise
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Ready
Life

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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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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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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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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 ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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 you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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