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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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Sense
Together
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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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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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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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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 soul is the lure of our becoming.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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