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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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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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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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Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
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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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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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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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