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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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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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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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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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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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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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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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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
Jean Houston