Marilyn Ferguson

“כדי למצוא את דרכנו במים סוערים, עדיף להיות בחברתם של אלה שבונים גשרים, שלמדו להתגבר על ייאוש וחוסר עשייה.”

“בסופו של דבר אנו יודעים שמצידו השני של הפחד נמצא החופש.”

“אין זה שאנו כה חוששים משינוי או שאנו כל כך מאוהבים בדרכים המוכרות, אלא שאנו מפחדים מהמקום שבין לבין... כמו להיות בין טרפזים... אין במה להיאחז.”

“אף אחד אינו יכול לשכנע את האחר להשתנות. שער השינוי יכול להיפתח רק מבפנים.”

“שינוי עצמך הוא מסע ללא יעד סופי.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.”

“Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.”

“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.”

“Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.”

“We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.”

“The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.”

“We get 150 notices a week for seminars.”

“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.”

“If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.”

“In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.”