Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

— Jean Houston

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

— Jean Houston

I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm…

— Jean Houston

The world needs the sense that we are all in it TOGETHER!

— Jean Houston

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our…

— Jean Houston

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

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer…

— Jean Houston

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of…

— Jean Houston

I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

— Jean Houston

What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art…

— Jean Houston

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ...

— Jean Houston

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

— Jean Houston

I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these…

— Jean Houston