Jean Houston Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

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

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

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

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

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

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

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

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

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

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

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

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

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

We live in a description of reality.

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

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

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

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

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

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

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

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

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

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

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

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

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

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

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

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

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

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

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