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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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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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