Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Marilyn Ferguson (American Author)

Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) was an American author, futurist, and thought leader known for her influential work in the New Age movement and her exploration of human potential. Renowned for her ability to distill complex concepts into accessible narratives, she played a significant role in popularizing ideas about personal transformation and collective evolution.

Born in Grand Junction, Colorado, Ferguson attended Mesa College and began her career in journalism before shifting her focus to psychology, consciousness, and societal change.

Her most celebrated work, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal Transformation (1980,) became a cornerstone of the New Age movement. The book outlines the “Aquarian Conspiracy” as a global network of individuals and organizations promoting spiritual, psychological, and social change, emphasizing interconnectedness and holistic thinking that bridges science and spirituality.

Her earlier work, The Brain Revolution: Frontiers of Mind Research (1973,) examines emerging neuroscience and its implications for education, creativity, and human potential. She also edited the Brain/Mind Bulletin, a newsletter that engaged scientists, educators, and cultural innovators with its insights into neuroscience, psychology, and systems theory.

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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.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: The Mind, Mind

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Stress

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.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Change, Arguments

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why?. Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Fear, Being True to Yourself

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Change

If we are to find our way across toubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Better, Water, Despair

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Freedom

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
—Marilyn Ferguson
Topics: Potential

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