Jean Houston

Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn…

— Jean Houston

Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as…

— Jean Houston

I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

“just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so…

— Jean Houston

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul…

— Jean Houston

You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells…

— Jean Houston

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

— Jean Houston

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous…

— Jean Houston

In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so…

— Jean Houston

Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I…

— Jean Houston

“The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new…

— Jean Houston

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the…

— Jean Houston

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is…

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston