Marilyn Ferguson People Quotations

War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.