We live in a description of reality. by Jean Houston

We live in a description of reality.

Jean Houston

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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.

health eye reality

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.

arriving heaven years

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

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

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

astonishment people ideas

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.

poetry-and-music singers world

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.

decay culture people

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.

growing names art

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

betrayal stories world

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!

issues would-be sex

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.

holocaust killing intellectual

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.

warrior long thinking

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.

talking people fall

We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.

media mind people

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.

night boys thinking

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

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I'm very much an animal and nature person. by Jean Houston

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

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

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

like-love schizophrenia vulnerable

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.

earth matter people

I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whate... by Jean Houston

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

available paper way

I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.

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