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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
Jean Houston
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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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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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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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.
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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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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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 believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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