Quotes from Jean Houston

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.

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

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

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.

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

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

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.

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

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.

We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

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.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

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

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.

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

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.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.