Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jean Houston (American New Thought Author)

Jean Houston (b.1937) is an American author involved in the “human potential movement.” Along with her husband, Robert Masters, she co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research. Houston was born in New York City to Mary Todaro Houston who was of Sicilian descent, and Jack Houston who was related to Sam Houston of Texas. Her father was a comedy writer who developed material for stage, television and the movies. His work required him, and the family, to move frequently. After the breakup of her parents’ marriage, she spent her teen years in New York City.

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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
Jean Houston
Topics: Creativity, Meaning

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 harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.
Jean Houston
Topics: Spirituality, Spirit

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming.
Jean Houston
Topics: Being True to Yourself

We all have the extraordinary coded within us… waiting to be released.
Jean Houston
Topics: Potential

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
Topics: Laughter

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