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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
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
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Everything
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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