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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Philosopher
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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