Jean Houston famous quotes

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

#Motivation #Healing #Waiting

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Laughter #Knowing #Break

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

#Positive #Happiness #Gratitude

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
-- Jean Houston

#Matter #Emotion #Situation

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

#Together #Needs #World

The soul is the lure of our becoming.
-- Jean Houston

#Soul #Becoming

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Flower #Garden #Vegetables

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Hands #Would Be #Stories

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

#Cosmos #Moments #Passive

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

#Mind #Trying #Each Day

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

#Life #Stories #Small Life

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

#Teacher #Parent #Administration

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Trying #Doe #Sparks

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Kindness #Real #Humanity

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

#Challenges #Humanity #Done

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

#Growing #Spirituality #Consciousness

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

#Writing #Growth #Stories

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Life #God #Believe

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

#Connections #Stories #Fields

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Real #Creativity #Doors

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

#Inspirational #Giving Up #Order

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

#Healing #Body #Awareness

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

#Journey #Practice #Psychology

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Laughter #Ideas #Giving

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

#Humanity #Pathways #Evolution

We live in a description of reality.
-- Jean Houston

#Reality #Description

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.
-- Jean Houston

#Overwhelmed #Enchanted

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Knowing #Intelligence #Democracy

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
-- Jean Houston

#Perception #Stories #World

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

#Mutation #Consciousness #Intense

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

#Spiritual #Journey #Beloved

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.
-- Jean Houston

#Dog #Children #Men

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

#Depth #Genius #Calling

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Health #Eye #Reality

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Artist #Player #Men

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise
-- Jean Houston

#Ready

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Light #People #Rays

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Cells #Ego #Soul

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

#Normal #Wells #Persons

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.
-- Jean Houston

#Differences #Making A Difference #Sacred