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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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 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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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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