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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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New York City
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our 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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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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 firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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'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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