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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
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
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Sense
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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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 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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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