Marilyn Ferguson

Academicians get nowhere.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Love is a context, not a behavior.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Our past is not our potential.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Leadership desperately needs women.

— Marilyn Ferguson

We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

— Marilyn Ferguson

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

— Marilyn Ferguson

I feed on conferences.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

— Marilyn Ferguson

If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.

— Marilyn Ferguson

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.

— Marilyn Ferguson

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

— Marilyn Ferguson

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

— Marilyn Ferguson

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

— Marilyn Ferguson

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

— Marilyn Ferguson

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

— Marilyn Ferguson

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

— Marilyn Ferguson

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

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening…

— Marilyn Ferguson

After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular…

— Marilyn Ferguson

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give…

— Marilyn Ferguson

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change.…

— Marilyn Ferguson

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can…

— Marilyn Ferguson

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of…

— Marilyn Ferguson

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

— Marilyn Ferguson

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

— Marilyn Ferguson