Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I am, therefore I'll think.

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?