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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
Play
Manipulate
Men
Destroying
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Creator
Thinking
Tend
Image
Manipulates
Player
Seduces
Artist
Fabricate
Ends
Seducing

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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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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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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 have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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