What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.
Jean HoustonCritical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.
Jean HoustonNow 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 HoustonWe are the love, the lover, the loving, and the love. It is the Supreme. It is the deepest force in our lives.
Jean HoustonLaughter 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 HoustonI am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.
Jean Houston