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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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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 ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.
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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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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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