Marilyn Ferguson

“I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.”

“Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'”

“The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.”

“The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.”

“People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.”

“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”

“We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.”

“The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.”

“We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.”

“Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”

“The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

“The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'”

“Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.”

“Leadership desperately needs women.”

“Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.”

“We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.”

“It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.”