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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.

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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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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The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like love and schizophrenia.
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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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A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
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Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.
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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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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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We live in a description of reality.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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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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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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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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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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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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