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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
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Genius
Humanity
Barely
Begun

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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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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 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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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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