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Jean Houston

lines on the record: 33
first: 2018-04-25
most recent: 2018-04-25
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I believe that we are here With deep purpose to become all that we can be, I believe that we have been given the most beautiful planet in the galaxy to work out and to enjoy, it isn't just a working out, it is truly to enjoy the gifts of our incarnation. I believe that we are headed ultimately in the right direction. I believe that we have been given sufficient stress, crisis, complexity and consciousness to do things that are beyond our imagination, larger than our aspiration, more complex than all our dreams. I believe in love, I believe in you, I believe in me, I believe in this the most potent moment in human history.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, and the first thing I ever say in the morning is dear God, see, I still use that language, please make me be a benefit. Someone or something today.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It varies from day to day. When I was a little girl, it was a very personal person. As I got older, it became the universe. It became the universe in us. But mostly I think it is the wonderful words from Dante, sole, the love that moves the sun and all the stars and moves in my heart and in yours. Is part for me, it is also part of the evolution of our becoming because we are coded, we are coded in our cells. But becoming, we are coded in our hearts, and we are coded into Godseeds becoming god selves, I think.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From the time you were six years old. I think it's a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Really? So I think we're always in process. I seem to be a process. I seem to be a verb. And held by the law of becoming that keeps us going on”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Either the chute open or you and I are having a lovely conversation in paradise. But once I had typhoid fever in Crete, it really nearly died, but I had a profound sense of continuity. So several times that this has happened. So I really believe that we are continuous in one way or the other. And I think that this universal university that we're in. Gives us a great school, Zukov College. Little Earth Earth School, and it may be also universe school too. I think it gives us a great many opportunities for all kinds of learning, especially where we are in the earth, where we're given sufficient paradise, sufficient problems, challenge, opportunities, variety in order to grow ourselves into whatever it is that we're going to become. For one thing to become stewards of this earth instead of the bad malusers of the earth.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a complete life of review at its own time. Not every little pork chop and Hershey bar, but it was. And then either”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've nearly died on several occasions Once it was when I was 19, I used to jump out of planes, I mean, with the parachute. It was very interesting because one day I hadn't packed my parachute well. So I was pulling and pulling on that. Nothing was happening. Nothing was happening. And my whole life from zero to 19 went by at its own time.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believe that the soul is the essence of who and what we are. I personally believe that it transcends our leaving this mortal coil. And I think it is also in part I think in part it is also that great friend that I talked about that it comes with codes and possibilities and the next layers of who and what we may yet be. It is often a pain in the neck because it says wake up. It's time to wake up. Don't go to sleep. I think it is also the lure of our becoming. That's what I think the soul”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want I want people to really understand the power of love and loving. I want people To look out at the world and say, I am a citizen of the most beautiful planet in the world. I have been given this holy incarnation extremely unlikely. You know, I look at people and say, you know, don't put yourself down. You won the ultimate Olympics. You are the sperm and the ovum that made it. The millions. I always say that too. There they go. There's millions. But I think it is to have a deep appreciation of the life that one is given and the life of others and then to act accordingly in the depths of that appreciation.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want people to know that we have been gifted by God with human possibilities and capacities that are so huge. And in many ways we have barely begun to really tap into who and what we are. We have many, many, many different persona, many different talents within us that our story is mythic, that we are all on hero heroines journeys, and above all that we are sourced in spirit, that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. And by golly, we are adequate to the challenge of the time. But also to see it in others. It's the seeing in the others. I think that's really what I meant by the seeing. It's seeing as you have so much in your life. It's the seeing and the others that engenders the others to their possibilities.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I grew up in show business, there was always an emphasis on How one is seen. Not that that was very heavy, but it was always there in the back. And my father, I remember once when I was still quite young and I was a college professor and I was carrying an old saddle back and my father said to me, JD, you can't get on the plane. We're carrying that. You might sit down next to some famous professor. And I remember turning to him and saying, Dad, I am the famous professor. But I think that you go beyond caring, really. You are there to be of service and you're not there to be seen. So I think that was...”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And in that, you have a generalized affection. And it is that generalized affection. And you're always looking for both the deeper aspect of anything that you see as well as what is actually trying to. And you try to be of use. But I would also say it is to really be present to the depths and beauty within each person and the higher purpose. I really think that many people are waking up to a deeper sense of purpose. They have to. It could be the earth herself. In fact,”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, because I think it was because your sense of heartfulness increases. And when your heartfulness increases. Fullness increases.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Never, ever. I mean, there's so much to do and to be. As I say, we're in this extraordinary time in human history and I think having, you know, they say 75 years, that still is the breath of life. You also have access to the depths. I find that that second or even the second half of life to be the most exciting, the most interesting. When did it get good?”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, when I work especially around the world, I'm often with young people. Well, I am now too, but I'm just saying even more so because I work in so many countries. I don't know that it's a passing of the torch. I find myself ignited by these young people. That's interesting. That's interesting. I think it's very mutual. I don't regard myself as being primary in any particular way at all, but to really be there with another is to see greatness. That's what I find in almost every person I meet.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Will was it Stephen Pinker who just wrote a book saying yes, there's less violence, believe it or not, less war than there was 50 years ago. That's one thing. But I think more and more people are becoming more conscious. I really see it happening. But it does need people like yourself, myself, and many of the people that we can name, as well as all those people who are out there saying we are in the time of renaissance of a radical new possibility. Because we are in the time truly of either or, of grow or die, of making peace sexy, you know, peace is potency, it's reaching, it's sprouting, it's planting. It's this new energy. It's people reaching out, crossing the great divide of otherness and making connections that they never did before.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The disempowered heart and feeling, the tin, the disempowered courage, the cowardly lion. And then comes the journey in which the intelligence is increased, or the man of intelligence, the mind who thought he'd, if I only had a brain, he finds out he has a great brain. And so part of my work and the work in that book, The Wizard of Us, is to show people how to enhance their minds, how to enhance their brains, how to grow and amplify their heart.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That story As Dorothy is called to get out of that outloaded situation of Dust Bowl, Kansas somewhere. That tremendous yearning. Many people feel a yearning, and then they say, I don't know. That's called the refusal of the call. And then finally, they can't stand themselves. And so sometimes it takes a big event to break them through.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Founded in He studied 240 separate cultures and myths That this was a sequence that you found in virtually all of them. And let's look at within the structure of a myth. I have a new book, as you know. Wizard of Us That's right, and I take it by looking at what happens in that phenomenal story that a great deal of the world knows, and then”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Inner capacities. Radical empathy because then you become smarter. And I think that it was a Other, then we grow. Then we grow.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, hundreds. Hundreds. Hundreds of reporters. It was a For news. But, you know, I went on and did something else. I went on and I began to work with people with Alzheimer Went from the White House to the nursing homes, and I found something so wonderful. That's what I did.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no. What happened is that I was helping Hillary write a book called It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, not just me or others. And we were And I said, Come on, Hilary, you've got to talk to somebody about who would you have loved to talk to? And she said, Is Roldebilt. I mean, Mrs. Roosevelt was a great model. I said, All right, let's imagine a Roosevelt, would she say view? It was a classic old fashioned. Role playing game. That is all it was. And somehow it got out to the press, and suddenly it was all over, and it had become a seance. I've never even been to a seance.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think ultimately that That's part of what my friend Jim Hildman called the souls code. I interviewed him a long time ago here. He's a very brilliant man”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or I need to get. Than that, there simply is more. And then the call, the yearning comes, and sometimes the call will come.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yet knew him very well, and we did some work together. We taught seminars together. He was lots of fun. I mean, Bliss was no mere metaphor with him. Could experience the hero's journey if it was what we were dealing with. Really, how do they”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You from that moment? I've never been asked that. I would say that childhood kept those memories alive. Adolescents gave it passion and eros. And then, you know, I went on with doctoral degrees and academics. And I almost lost it, but not quite. I was always flush against some kind of extraordinary experience or person. Wow.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Suddenly, the whole world shifted. I didn't see anything different, Oprah. I didn't hear anything different. Oh, I was six years old. But suddenly the whole world moved into meaning. Literally, all of reality was there, and it was all moving together. And it was very, very good. And I was in a universe of fellowship in which everything was joyous and part of a great tremendous unity of which I was a part in a state of bliss. Childhood awareness, yeah, yeah.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, really. Well, I did have an experience when I was six years old. May I tell you? Please do. Please do. My father being an agnostic Baptist, but he had to become a Catholic to marry my mother, whose name was Maria Nunciade Serafina Grazia. And so they sent me to Catholic school in the first grade, and I got into a lot of trouble with the nun for asking interesting questions. Would you ask? Oh, well, I did ask when Ezekiel saw the wheel, was he drunk? I mean, it was questions like that, that kind of thing. Anyway, Sister Teresa gave me 300 million years in purgatory. And I went home crying and my father was laughing that I got because you asked the question? I asked the questions. And so to get away from my father and his laughter, I went and prayed in the closet.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She had an extraordinary presence, and we just felt ourselves activated by the look. And she really got us very interested in human rights. She actually turned to me once and said, my dear, I rather suspect you're going to have a most interesting career. But remember, my dear, there is a woman in the professions you can expect to be trashed. You didn't use the word trash to do something else. But remember too, my dear, that a woman is just like a tea bag. You put her in hot water and she just gets stronger, which has proved to be...”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Roosevelt. Can I tell you about her? Please do. Well, I was, what, 16, and I was president of my high school, Julia Richmond. And Mrs. Roosevelt was gathering the young presidents of high schools and getting us together. And she was trying to get us interested in international affairs and working in the UN. And she, I remember Oprah that she used words like wands, pungent, trying to, we felt inspirited, you know, with a new sense of purpose. By her use of language. By her use of language and her deep...”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here on the planet. Well, I've been very fortunate. See, I grew up in a comical family. My father wrote the Bob Hope show and all those shows. And I was exposed to absurdity and laughter as a way of life. And then I went to 20 schools before I was 12. And I was always told by my mother how lucky I was. My mother was a Shakespearean actor. So I was, as a little child, you know, made to recite, make me a willow cabin at your gate, call upon my soul within the house. So there was that. My parents were very kind people. So they were always in human service in one way or the other. And then I was a Girl Scout from the time I was really quite young. And there we... What a generous thing to be able to sing about your parents. My parents were very kind. Very cool people.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a passion for the possible. I think it's living in this, which must be the most interesting time in human history, where what we do will make a profound difference as to whether we... Grower, whether we perish. And it's that sense of urgency and possibility, the lore of becoming, I think, that keeps me going. I've worked in... 108 countries, and I see, you know, I'm very positive because I'm there to see how people come together, how they help each other, how they cross the great divide of otherness.”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You are one good looking 75 year old. Oh, thank you. I'm half Sicilian. It's 4,000 years of olive oil. Is that what it is? Looking through the system, yes. Is that what it is, or is it your”
2018-04-25 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jean Houston: Lessons from 'The Wizard of Oz' · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source