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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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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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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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
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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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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 are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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