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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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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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I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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.
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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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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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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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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.
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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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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 live in a description of reality.
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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