Jean Houston Quotes

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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.

  Jean Houston

  Cosmos, Moments, Passive

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• Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

  Jean Houston

  Perception, Growth, Stories

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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.

  Jean Houston

  Differences, Making A Difference, Sacred

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• You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

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  Cells, Ego, Soul

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

  Jean Houston

  Motivation, Healing, Waiting

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• Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

  Jean Houston

  Connections, Stories, Fields

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

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• If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

  Jean Houston

  Life, Stay Positive, Stories

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• Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

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  Inspirational, Giving Up, Order

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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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  Stars, Moving, Together

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• 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.

  Jean Houston

  Trying, Doe, Sparks

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• I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.

  Jean Houston

  Hands, Would Be, Stories

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• Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

  Jean Houston

  Flower, Garden, Vegetables

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• Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

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  House, Energy, Treasure

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• No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

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  Matter, Emotion, Situation

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Real, Humanity

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• My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

  Jean Houston

  Prayer, Blessing, Today

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

  Jean Houston

  Writing, Growth, Stories

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

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• We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.

  Jean Houston

  Opposites, Space, Order

  Source: scottlondon.com

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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.

  Jean Houston

  Life, God, Believe

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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

  Jean Houston

  Mind, Trying, Each Day

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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.

  Jean Houston

  Lovers, Force, Our Lives

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

  Jean Houston

  Brain, Function

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• I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.

  Jean Houston

  Scary, Challenges, World

  "Soul Speaking and Truth Telling: A Conversation with Jean Houston". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 23, 2013.

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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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  Laughter, Ideas, Giving

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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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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