Jean Houston
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.Collection: Perception
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.Collection: Cosmos
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.Collection: Differences
You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.Collection: Cells
Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.Collection: Connections
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.Collection: Life
There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.Collection: Trying
Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.Collection: Inspirational
Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all the stars" - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.Collection: Stars
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.Collection: Hands
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.Collection: House
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.Collection: Flower
No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.Collection: Matter
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.Collection: Writing
In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we partner Creation in the creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the regenesis of society and in the assuming of a new type of culture; the culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and engaged in the world and in our tasks.Collection: Kindness
My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.Collection: Prayer
We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.Collection: Lovers
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.Collection: Mind
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.Collection: Laughter
We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.Collection: Opposites
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.Collection: Thinking
A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.Collection: Normal
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.Collection: Ideas
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much killing and disaster has been championed with superb intellectual reasons.Collection: Holocaust
What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.Collection: Art
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 a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.Collection: Thinking
Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.Collection: Warrior
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 sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: People
Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."Collection: Like Love
I'm very much an animal and nature person.Collection: Animal
I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.Collection: Paper
I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.Collection: Baby
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.Collection: Journey
Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.Collection: Humanity
Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.Collection: Light
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.Collection: Poetry And Music
Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.Collection: Body
Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.Collection: Overwhelmed
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.Collection: Artist
In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.Collection: Love Is
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.Collection: Teacher
Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!Collection: Sex
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.Collection: Spiritual
We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.Collection: Space
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 in this time in history? I am really driven, believe it or not, am awakened by a sense of being in this powerful axis, this turning point in human history.Collection: Powerful