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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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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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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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We live in a description of reality.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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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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The soul is the lure of our becoming.
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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.
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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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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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We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
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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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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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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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