Jean Houston Quotes

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

Sometimes history speeds up..

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.