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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
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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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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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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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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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