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Jean Houston, born on May 10, 1937, is an American author, psychologist, and researcher in human potential. Her work spans various fields including human potential, mythology, leadership, and personal growth. Houston is known for her in-depth research on human potential and her modern interpretations of traditional myths.

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“Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.”

People World Has Beens Light Earth Consciousness Sun Rays Transformed Luminous

Author:Jean Houston

“Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.”

World Years Jobs America Asks Opportunity Letters Thirds India Retarded Precocious Job Opportunities Opportunity In America

Author:Jean Houston

“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.”

Knows World Streets Poet Lows Theater Metaphor Singers Remarkable Farmers Rice Great Poet Bangladesh Highs And Lows Great Poetry Poetry And Music Sweepers

Author:Jean Houston

“I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.”

World Wells Sometimes Challenges Exciting Patterns Scary Acceleration

Author:Jean Houston

“In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.”

World Humanity Love Is Practice Aspect Crosses Critical Divides Activate Otherness

Author:Jean Houston

“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.”

Men World Way Mind Ends Grows Process Rich Style Products Worship Available Rising Educate Partnership Emphasis

Author:Jean Houston

“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?”

Ifs World Stories Life Is Christ Impossible Complexes Betrayal Critical Theme Betray Resurrection Betrayed

Author:Jean Houston

“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.”

World Real Creativity Creative Seeing Doors This World Keys Window Senses Wellspring Unlocking

Author: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.”

World Real Humanity Culture Kindness Stage Creation Source Type Tasks Assuming Partners Engaged Our Time Daily Life Restoration Liberated Real Work Biosphere

Author:Jean Houston

“Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.”

World Stories Growth Perception Aspiration Changing The World

Author:Jean Houston

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

World Needs Together

Author:Jean Houston

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Born: May 10, 1937
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