Jean Houston Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Happiness, Laughter, Knowing

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• I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

  Jean Houston

  Thinking, Soul, Everyday

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.

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  Normal, Wells, Persons

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• We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

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  Mind, Fantasy, Allowing

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

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  Thinking, Issues

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• Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

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  Teacher, Reality, Islands

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

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  Brain, Function

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• I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

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  Encouragement, Believe, Needs

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• The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

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  Together, Needs, World

  "Jean Houston Talks About Love, Life... and Her Near-Death Experience". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic stories that keep our selves alerted and spared until we find another story.

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  Self, Giving, Toxic

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship.

  Jean Houston

  Men, Mind, Style

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

  Jean Houston

  Ready

  "Thought Leader Jean Houston Chats with Oprah", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

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  Real, Creativity, Doors

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• The soul is the lure of our becoming.

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  Soul, Becoming, Lure

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• The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

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  History, Challenges, Humanity

  Jean Houston (2016). “Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Mutation, Consciousness, Intense

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

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  Dog, Children, Men

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• The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

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  Growing, Spirituality, Consciousness

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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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  Healing, Body, Awareness

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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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  People, Use, Levels

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• As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Beloved

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

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  Teaching, People, Empowering

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• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

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  Poetry And Music, World, Singers

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

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  Generosity, Loving You, Way

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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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  Body, Awareness, Educated

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