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The soul is the lure of our becoming.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Lure
Becoming
Soul

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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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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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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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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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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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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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