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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 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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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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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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