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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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New York City
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