Religion Quotes by Jean Houston

8 Religion quotes by Jean Houston

Jean Houston’s eight statements on religion echo her focus on personal transformation. The short collection provides a quick look at how she blends psychology and spirituality in her work.

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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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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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When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the…

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There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the…

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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also…

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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would…

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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…

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When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

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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…

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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…

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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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“G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!”

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What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story…

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

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

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