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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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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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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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