The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking – it is positive action: the spirit of experiment. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
Victory doesn’t lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
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. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
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. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don’t change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
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. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history… this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition. Marilyn Ferguson Read Quote
