Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
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 them.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
Academicians get nowhere.
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.
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 freedom.
After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the 'Age of Aquarius,' the time of the mind's true liberation.
'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 richness in others by learning to listen.
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 to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.
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.
I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.
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.
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: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
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.
I feed on conferences.
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity.
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.