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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Whatever
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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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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 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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Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
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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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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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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
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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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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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