Marilyn Ferguson

Evolution happens in jumps, very rapidly.

If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking.

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.

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

You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.

I feed on conferences.

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

Academicians get nowhere.

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.'

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

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

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

We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.

Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.