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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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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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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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I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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