Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That's how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

I think when I feel fear, that's often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, that's a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.