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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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'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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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 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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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