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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.

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
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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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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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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