Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
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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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Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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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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People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
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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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We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
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If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.
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The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.
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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
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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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A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
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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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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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The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
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'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.
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We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.