Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
• Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity…
• So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free…
• The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
• The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
• Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns,…
• Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
• If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have…
• Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against…
• Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
• The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes…
• Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness,…
• An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.
• Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in…
• 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…
• Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.…
• Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

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