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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
