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Marilyn Ferguson Quote

“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

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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

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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.

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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.

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Life

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