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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
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Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Rise
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Life

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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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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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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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