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1 " 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
2 " In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society. "
3 " At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. "
4 " I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible. "
5 " We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released "
6 " Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted. "
7 " just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. "
8 " G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you! "
9 " If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life. "
10 " If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life. "
11 " ruby comes from the rock being crushed for millions of years, fine leather from the harshness of tanning, and fine wine from the crushing and fermentation of the grapes, so we might regard the sufferings of our life as refinements that are tanning us, fermenting us, transforming and deepening us. Brought into consciousness with acceptance rather than resentment, the ill treatment that we suffer at our own and others’ hands is transformed into divine pressure that is molding and shaping the Godself within. "
― Jean Houston , Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to Our Inner Life
