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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

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
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World
Sense
Together

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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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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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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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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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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 live in a description of reality.
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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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Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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