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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
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New York City
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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 am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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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