Jean Houston Quotes

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

Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

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.

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.

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

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

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

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.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it TOGETHER!

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

In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we partner Creation in the creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the regenesis of society and in the assuming of a new type of culture; the culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and engaged in the world and in our tasks.

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

In Jump Time's developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

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.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

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.

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.

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.

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

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are ...

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.

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

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.

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.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

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.

We live in a description of reality.