Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Fergusonwas an American author, editor and public speaker, best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy and its affiliation with the New Age Movement in popular culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Marilyn Ferguson quotes about
patterns
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.
effort brain littles
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.
bridges water despair
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.
journey finals transformation
Transformation is a journey without a final destination.
teaching learning two
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
giving long people
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.
learning ideas people
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.'
responsibility opportunity disease
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.
taken simple reality
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.
feelings layers belief
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.
companion explorers uncertainty
Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.
body clarity consciousness
Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.
writing circles fire
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.
integrity book creativity
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.