The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change.… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
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