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Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.
Marilyn Ferguson
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Marilyn Ferguson
Age: 70 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 5
Died: 2008
Died: October 19
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The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.
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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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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.
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only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.
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If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
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By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.
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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 creative process requires chaos before form emerges.
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...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.
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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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