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title: "2 Activate Quotes By Jean Houston"
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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/pathos-activates-the-eyes-and-ears-to-see-and-hear-at-times-of-pathos/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/in-a-world-such-as-ours-where-we-have-to-cross-the-great-divide-of/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

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## More by Jean Houston

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/you-ve-had-a-whole-lot-of-experience-but-everything-is-also-radically/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/as-you-allow-the-beloved-to-grow-within-you-you-will-discover-a/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/if-you-travel-as-much-as-i-do-165-000-miles-last-year-you-exist/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/change-the-story-and-you-change-perception-change-perception-and-you/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/time-has-driven-out-sex-and-money-as-the-central-issues-now-if-it/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/we-needed-a-psychenaut-program-to-be-the-opposite-of-the-astronaut/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/when-we-are-calling-forth-the-depth-and-genius-of-the-other-then-we/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/certainly-one-is-brought-to-the-brink-of-one-s-sense-of-who-one-is/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/i-often-wonder-if-you-wrote-your-memoir-today-if-your-life-story/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/the-ecological-crisis-is-doing-what-no-other-crisis-in-history-has/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [“G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/g-u-r-u-gee-you-are-you/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/what-i-often-do-in-my-work-is-to-take-a-great-story-such-as-the/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/each-person-is-a-really-a-great-treasure-house-of-capacities/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/the-more-you-love-the-more-loving-you-become-that-s-just-the-way-it/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

> [Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-houston/vulnerable-is-a-catch-all-word-like-love-and-schizophrenia/)

[Jean Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-houston/)

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