Marilyn Ferguson Short Quotes

21 Sourced Quotes

View all Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Marilyn Ferguson
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

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

Marilyn Ferguson
A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

Marilyn Ferguson
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.'

Marilyn Ferguson
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Marilyn Ferguson
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

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

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

Marilyn Ferguson
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Marilyn Ferguson
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

Marilyn Ferguson
Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshal 'facts'.

Marilyn Ferguson
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

Marilyn Ferguson
Only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Marilyn Ferguson
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.

Marilyn Ferguson
Whatever the cost in personal relationships, we discover that our highest responsibility, finally, unavoidably is the stewardship of our potential—being all that we can be.

Marilyn Ferguson
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.

Marilyn Ferguson
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.

Marilyn Ferguson
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.

Marilyn Ferguson
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

Marilyn Ferguson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasurehouse of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson