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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
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New York City
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In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.
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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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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 live in a description of reality.
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If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.
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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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