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" Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war. "

Marilyn Ferguson

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" I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history. "

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" I didn't intend to go into the seminar business. "

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" Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. "

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" Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher. "

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" Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. "

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" Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. "

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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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" Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. "

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" You can be more productive, confident, comfortable with insecurity. "

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" We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.' "

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" 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. "

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" The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics. "

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" Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action. "

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" Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense. "

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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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" It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along. "

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" People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer. "

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

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" 'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen. "

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" Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. "

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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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