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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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New York City
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Change the story and you change perception change perception and you change the world.
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Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.
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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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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.
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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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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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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
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I'm very much an animal and nature person.
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We live in a description of reality.
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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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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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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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Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
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Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
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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.
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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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We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.
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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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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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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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