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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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Philosopher
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New York City
New York
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We live in a description of reality.
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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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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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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