Words matter. These are the best Marilyn Ferguson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 argument or emotional appeal.
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.
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
I feed on conferences.
The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking – it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful – the ‘ruling class’ – make up the rules as they go along.
We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex – the scientists call it ‘coherent’ – the more fluctuations are possible.
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, ‘stuck’ person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.
There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.
Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich… new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
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.’
You can certainly make the case that we’re devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
I didn’t intend to go into the seminar business.
A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don’t change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
Victory doesn’t lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.
