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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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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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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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 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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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