# Marilyn Ferguson - Quotes: 213 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson ## Books - [The Aquarian Conspiracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy.md) — 213 quotes ## Recently added quotes > The seed of God is in us, Meister Eckhart said. "Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into G o d .'' [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/the-seed-of-god.md) > Spiritual or mystical experience, the subject of this chapter, is the mirror image of science—a direct perception of nature's unity, the inside of the mysteries that science tries valiantly to know from the outside. This way of understanding predates science by thousands of years. Long before humankind had tools like quantum logic to describe events that ordinary reason could not grasp, individuals moved into the realm of paradox through a shift in consciousness. And there they know that what cannot be is. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/spiritual-or-mystical.md) > Many old friendships and acquaintances fall away; new friendships, even a whole new support network, take their place. Based as they are on shared values and a shared journey, these new relationships are perhaps more intense. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/many-old-friendships.md) > Relatives, colleagues, friends, and marriage partners, understandably threatened by these changes, often exert pressure on the individual...These pressures only widen the gap. You don't stop an immigrant by trying to revive his hopes for the Old World. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/relatives-colleagues-friends.md) > Love and fraternity, once part of an ideal, have become crucial to our survival. Jesus enjoined his followers to love one another. Teilhard added, "or you perish." Without human affection, we become sick, frightened, hostile. Lovelessness is a broken circuit, loss of order. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/love-and-fraternity.md) > The dream of light and liberation is poetically expressed in an apocryphal contemporary Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ. For too long, it says, our temples have been the tombs of the hidden things of time. Our temples, crypts, and caves are dark. We have been unable to see the patterns. "In light there are no secret things.... There is no lonely pilgrim on the way to light. Men only gain the heights by helping others gain the heights.... We know that the light is coming over the hills. God speed the light. p. 386 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/the-dream-of-light.md) > By radically altering one's values and perceptions of the world, mystical experience tends to create its own culture, one with wide membership and invisible borders. This parallel culture seems to threaten the status quo; as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, Western society is outraged if an individual gives his soul as much daily attention as his grooming. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/by-radically-altering.md) > L i g h t . . . light, wrote T. S. Eliot, visible reminder of invisible light. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/l-i-g.md) > We know the necessary conditions for the changing of minds. Now that we see the deep pathology of our past, we can make new patterns, new paradigms. "The sum of all our days is just our beginning...." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/we-know-the.md) > All countries are economically and ecologically involved with each other, politically enmeshed. The old gods of isolationism and nationalism are tumbling, artifacts like the stone deities of Easter Island. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/all-countries-are.md) > At first glance, it may seem hopelessly Utopian to imagine that the world can resolve its desperate problems. Each year fifteen million die in starvation and many more live in unrelenting hunger; every ninety seconds the nations of the world spend one million dollars on armaments; every peace is an uneasy peace; the planet has been plundered of many of its nonrenewable resources. Yet there have been remarkable advances as well. Just since the end of World War II, thirty-two countries with 40 percent of the world's population have overcome their problems of food scarcity; China is becoming essentially self-sufficient and has controlled its once-overwhelming population growth; there is a net gain in world literacy and in populist governments; concern for human rights has become a stubborn international issue. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/at-first-glance.md) > The personal paradigm shift is like a sea-crossing to the New World. The immigrant, try as he might, cannot persuade all his friends and loved ones to make the journey. Those who stay behind cannot understand why the familiar did not hold the immigrant. Why did he abandon his accustomed homeland? Saddest of all, how could their affections not hold him? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/the-personal-paradigm.md)