Quotes from Jean Houston

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.

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.

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.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

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

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

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

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

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

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.