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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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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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New York City
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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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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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 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've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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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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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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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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