When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic stories that keep our selves alerted and spared until we find another story. Jean Houston More Quotes by Jean Houston More Quotes From Jean Houston 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 real humanity kindness Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are. Jean Houston mutation intense consciousness 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 humanity challenges history 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 creativity real doors The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit. Jean Houston loving-you generosity way 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. Jean Houston encouragement believe needs Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health. Jean Houston awareness body healing Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body. Jean Houston educated awareness body The soul is the lure of our becoming. Jean Houston lure becoming soul 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 spirituality growing consciousness 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. Jean Houston empowering teaching people 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 god life believe 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. Jean Houston space opposites order Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship. Jean Houston style mind men Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. Jean Houston treasure energy house 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. Jean Houston scary space imagination 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 Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it. Jean Houston islands teacher reality What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you. Jean Houston psychics yesterday thinking A myth is something that never was but that is always happening. Jean Houston myth happenings
