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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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We live in a description of reality.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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 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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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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