"The brain's calculations do not require our conscious……" — Marilyn Ferguson
"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 of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness."
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37 Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson
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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…
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
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Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of…
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In…
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The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
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The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
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We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
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Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond…
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Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
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If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who…
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Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one…
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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