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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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New York City
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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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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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