Jean Houston Quotes

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

A true initiation never ends.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.