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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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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 have barely begun to tap into the genius of our 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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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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 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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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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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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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