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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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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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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 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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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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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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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