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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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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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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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