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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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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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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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 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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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