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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
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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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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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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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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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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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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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 tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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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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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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