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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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We live in a description of reality.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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