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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
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New York City
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Sense
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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 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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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 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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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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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