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.

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"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

Transformation

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

- Jean Houston

Personal Growth

"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

Courage

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

- Jean Houston

Inspiration

"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

Healing

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity