Frasi di Marilyn Ferguson (128 frasi, pagina 4)

In their hearts and minds, war and boundaries and dogma have indeed already died. And they possess that large hope of which Hugo wrote. They know each other as countrymen. The Whole Earth is a borderless country, a paradigm of humanity with room enough for outsiders and traditionalists, for all our ways of human knowing, for all mysteries and all cultures. p. 405
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy

“Relationships are the crucible of the transformative process. They are bound to alter, given the individual's greater willingness to risk, trust in intuition, sense of wider connection with others, recognition of cultural conditioning.”

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Origine: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing, p. 387

“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.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing

“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.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing

“Ongoing personal transformation moves one away from the Old World— sometimes abruptly, more often over years. As we have seen in an earlier chapter, people change jobs, even vocations, in the wake of shifting perceptions.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing

“L i g h t . . . light, wrote T. S. Eliot, visible reminder of invisible light.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source

“Always, the vision of evolution toward the light. Light is the oldest and most pervasive metaphor in spiritual experience. We speak of enlightenment, the city of light, the Light of the World, children of light, the "white-light experience."”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source

“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source

“If work becomes rewarding, not just obligatory, that also reorders values and priorities. We will look at the evidence for a new paradigm, based on values, which transcends the old paradigm of economics, with its emphasis on growth, control, manipulation.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation

“Spending is an opiate to many people, a balm to disappointments, frustrations, emptiness. If the individual transforms that inner distress, there is less need for drugs and distractions.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation

“Buying, selling, owning, saving, sharing, keeping, investing, giving—these are outward expressions of inward needs. When those needs change, as in personal transformation, economic patterns change.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation

“Making a life, not just a living, is essential to one seeking wholeness. Our hunger turns out to be for something different, not something more.”

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Origine: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation, p. 323

“All over the world, children and young people are being exposed, via the communications revolution, to such ideas. They are not limited to the parochial beliefs of a single culture.”

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Origine: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn, p. 321

“If we are not learning and teaching we are not awake and alive. Learning is not only like health, it is health.”

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Origine: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn, p. 282

“The revolutionary principle introduced by Gandhi resolves the paradox of freedom. He called it satyagraha, "soul force" or "truth force."”

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Satyagraha was essentially misunderstood in the West, described as "passive resistance," a term Gandhi disavowed because it suggests weakness, or "non-violence," which was just one of its components.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power

“Generation after generation, humankind fights to preserve the status quo, maintaining "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know," a bit of folk cynicism that assumes the unknown to be dangerous.”

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Origine: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power, p. 197

“A political paradigm shift might be said to occur when the new values are assimilated by the dominant society. These values then become social dogma to members of a new generation, who marvel that anyone could ever have believed otherwise.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power

“The discovery of freedom, for instance, means little if we are not empowered to act, to be free for something, not just from something. As fear falls away, we are less afraid of power's Siamese twin, responsibility.”

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The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power