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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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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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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 soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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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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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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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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