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Portrait of Jean Houston

Jean Houston

(1937) Philosopher United States

91 quotes in 594 categories

Jean Houston encourages a childlike curiosity that treats every moment as new. She says changing a story can shift perception, and changing perception can change the world. She also talks about exploring inner space, calling it a ‘psychenaut’ adventure beyond the outer world.

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Jean Houston is a philosopher from the United States, best known for Godseed.

Quick Facts About Jean Houston

Born: May 10, 1937
Nationality: United States
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Godseed
Spouse: Robert E. L. Masters

About Jean Houston

Jean Houston was an American author involved in the human potential movement. Along with her husband, Robert Masters, she co-founded the Foundation for Mind Research.

Quotes by Jean Houston

“G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!”

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We live in a description of reality.

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The soul is the lure of our becoming.

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

Inspirational

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I'm very much an animal and nature person.

Animal

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I am ready for the rest of my life to rise

Funny

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

Inspirational

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“If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.”

Life lessons

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

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

Enchanted

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

Issues

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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

Baby

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

Comedy

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We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our…

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Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

Connections

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Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of…

Earth

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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…

Challenges

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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…

Courage

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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…

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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Administration

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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…

Consciousness

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

Children

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Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access…

Access

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

Access

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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,…

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

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If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.…

Abstraction

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

Art

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

Damage

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We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a…

Character

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You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a…

Bears

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What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking…

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

Brain

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

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

Aspiration

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

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Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid…

Body

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Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Currency

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I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.

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

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Jean Houston by topic

Time (12) World (11) Life (10)