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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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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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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
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Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.
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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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