Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.