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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
Author
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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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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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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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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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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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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