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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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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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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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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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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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The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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