Jean Houston
Jean Houston
Jean Houstonis an American author involved in the "human potential movement." Along with her husband, Robert Masters, she co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 May 1937
CountryUnited States of America
heaven earth unexpected
If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.
generosity loving-you spirit
The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.
I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be.
children people decision
I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
love-is humanity world
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.
animal
I'm very much an animal and nature person.
vulnerable schizophrenia
Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."
ideas people astonishment
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
jobs opportunity years
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.
poetry-and-music world singers
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.
people earth great-men
Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
player men thinking
We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.
eye health reality
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
knowing intelligence democracy
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.