Jean Houston

"By being wounded, you became vulnerable and available; by being lost, you were able to be found; by dying, you learned the power of new birth; by forgetting, you gained the joy of remembering."

- Jean Houston

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

- Jean Houston

"May I be so bold as to offer you a gift? If I may, read on. I gift you with the courage to be, to know deeply the divine design of your life."

- Jean Houston

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

- Jean Houston

"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 harbour a greater life than we know."

- Jean Houston

"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."

- Jean Houston

"Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing."

- Jean Houston

"And because the universe dances, as the man from Ghana explains to me later, ‘he who does not dance does not know what happens.'"

- Jean Houston

"I have come to believe that life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path that carries us nearer to the spiritual source of life."

- Jean Houston