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.

— Jean Houston

Jean Houston Quotes

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.

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

I don’t think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

— Jean Houston

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

— Jean Houston

Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.

— Jean Houston

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

— Jean Houston

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

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.

— Jean Houston

Storytelling

We live in a description of reality.

— Jean Houston

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

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.

— Jean Houston

I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains of consciousness, not just levels and frequencies.

— Jean Houston

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people’s potential. I’m always in wonder and astonishment.

— Jean Houston

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