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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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Philosopher
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New York City
New York
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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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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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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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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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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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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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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