Explore Quotes by 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.

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

The soul is the lure of our becoming.

A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.

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

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

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

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

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

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.

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.

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.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the 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.

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.

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

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

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

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.