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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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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Philosopher
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New York City
New York
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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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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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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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 soul is the lure of our becoming.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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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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