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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

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
Barely
Begun
Genius
Humanity

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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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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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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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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 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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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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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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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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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