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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.
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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've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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