Education Quote by Marilyn Ferguson

“We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'” quote by Marilyn Ferguson — Download Open image

“We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'”

Marilyn Ferguson

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Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

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

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You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.

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Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom…

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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,…

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The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

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

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Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant…

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Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

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Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

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