Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
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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.
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I feed on conferences.
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Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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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.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
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You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.
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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 tradition.
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People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
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I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
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The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
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We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
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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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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.
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Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
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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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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.
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It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
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Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.
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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
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In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
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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.
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After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the 'Age of Aquarius,' the time of the mind's true liberation.
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Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.