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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
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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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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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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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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