Quotes from Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

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

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

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

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.

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

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

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.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision" Does anyone know the book and page that this quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce appears for a reference???

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

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

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 first lose the fear of being wrong.

As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.

To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.

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

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.