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Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Marilyn Ferguson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 5
Died: 2008
Died: October 19
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An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.
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It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
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The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
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If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.
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The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.
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We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence to forge links to go beyond the given to see patterns, relationships, context.
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The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
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Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.
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We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.
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The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.
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When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.
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A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.
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Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.
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The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.
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