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I'm very much an animal and nature person.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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New York City
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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 a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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