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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.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, The love that moves the Sun and all the stars - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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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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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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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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I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
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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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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.
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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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Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
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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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