"For only as we ourselves, as adults,..." - Quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce
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.
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“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.”
“Seeing within changes one's outer vision.”
“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.”
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“And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.”
“Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.”
“Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.”
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“As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.”
“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”
“Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, thatlove too has its prophecies in the individual.”