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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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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
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Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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