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Leadership desperately needs women.

Marilyn Ferguson

Leadership desperately needs women.

Tags: women, needs, desperately

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Tags: fear, freedom, success, happiness, know, deeply

About Author
Marilyn Ferguson (April 5, 1938, in Grand Junction, Colorado – October 19, 2008) was an American author, editor and public speaker known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which is connected with the New Age Movement.
Ferguson published and edited the well-regarded science newsletter Brain/Mind Bulletin from 1975 to 1996. She eventually earned several honorary degrees, served on the board of directors of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and befriended such diverse figures of influence as inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller, spiritual author Ram Dass, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine and billionaire Ted Turner. Ferguson's work also influenced Vice President Al Gore, who participated in her informal network while a senator, and later met with her in the White House.

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.

Marilyn Ferguson

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.

Tags: wisdom, opportunities, past

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a me...

Marilyn Ferguson

Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a me...

Tags: fear, world, control

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Tags: love, war, hate

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

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.

Tags: society, thinking, action

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

Marilyn Ferguson

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

Tags: challenge, irresistible

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore th...

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, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore th...

Tags: health, information, why

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts sparked here and there by minor incidents warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places at differ...

Marilyn Ferguson

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts sparked here and there by minor incidents warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places at differ...

Tags: time

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...

Marilyn Ferguson

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...

Tags: success, change, teacher

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

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.

Tags: change, argument, emotional, inside

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Marilyn Ferguson

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Tags: risks

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:...

Marilyn Ferguson

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:...

Tags: work, family, nature

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Tags: stress, problems, renewal

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Tags: ways, overcome, fear

'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 richn...

Marilyn Ferguson

'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 richn...

Tags: learning, philosophy, body

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

Marilyn Ferguson

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

Tags: future

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.

Marilyn Ferguson

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.

Tags: change