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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

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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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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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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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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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'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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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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