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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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