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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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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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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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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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 have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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