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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
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New York City
New York
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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 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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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