Jean Houston Quotes

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.