Quotes by 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.”

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”

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

“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”

“One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity...”

“True creativity often starts where language ends.”

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.