118 Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical changes in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history... this benign conspiracy for new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history.

We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

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