Marilyn Ferguson

“It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear.”

“The new paradigm is a shift from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological worldview.”

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation.”

“Our worries are our safe places. We can be certain of them.”

“Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.”

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

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

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

“Risk is the willingness to be vulnerable.”

“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.”

“A leader is not someone who has the answers, but one who knows how to ask the right questions.”

“Personal transformation is the forerunner of social change.”

“A paradigm is a framework of thought... a scheme for understanding and explaining certain aspects of reality.”