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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.
Jean Houston
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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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