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 We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. Jean Houston motivation healing waiting Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. Jean Houston growth perception stories 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 ego cells soul Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all the stars" - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving. Jean Houston stars together moving You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment. Jean Houston cosmos passive moments If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life. Jean Houston stay-positive stories life 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 making-a-difference sacred differences 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 would-be stories hands 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 sparks doe trying No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence. Jean Houston situation emotion matter Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. Jean Houston growth stories writing 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 garden flower vegetables 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 happiness Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story. Jean Houston giving-up inspirational order The world needs the sense that we are all in it together. Jean Houston together world needs At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston gratitude positive happiness We are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives. Jean Houston our-lives force lovers 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 each-day mind trying We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details. Jean Houston mind talking thinking My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today. Jean Houston prayer blessing today
