Joseph Chilton Pearce

“We must become the people we want our children to be.”

“We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.”

“Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.”

“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

“We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.”

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

“Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.”

“Seeing within changes one's outer vision.”

“We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.”

“We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.”

“The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.”

“One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.”

“Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions”

“As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.”

“When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!”

“Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.”

“For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”