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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
Writer
New York City
New York
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Brain
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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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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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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