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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

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're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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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.
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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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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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Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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We live in a description of reality.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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