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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
Writer
New York City
New York
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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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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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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
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We live in a description of reality.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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