Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Believe that you may understand.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does "the" truth really exist? What is "the" truth? Can we know it? Can we find it?

Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.

A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That's why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.