When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology… — Jean Houston Copy Share
We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ... — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow… — Jean Houston Copy Share
