Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

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We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'

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Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

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Over the years our bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of our lives.

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Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence: to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationship, context.

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Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

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Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

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New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding — great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

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The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Marilyn Ferguson