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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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New York City
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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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 ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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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 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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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