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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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New York City
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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