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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Men
Destroying
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Creator
Thinking
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Manipulates
Player
Seduces
Artist
Fabricate
Ends
Seducing
Play
Manipulate

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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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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 believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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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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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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 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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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