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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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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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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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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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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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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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.
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