No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal. — 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 cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
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
