Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes

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

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.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

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.

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

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

An enormous force bends all lines into circles.

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.

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.

A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it for me? Now I see that what I must do is go into every event asking, What can I do for them?" And my friend had grievously missed the point. The great discovery is that we have nothing to give at all to anyone, anywhere.

Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.

In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free, whole individuals this good earth has prepared us to be.

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

operate within a new form of science that asks not just what is possible, but what is appropriate—appropriate to the well-being of self and Earth. Such a question does not originate in the mental realm but the spiritual, and is felt bodily, once our senses and heart are attuned. So the central part of our being that simply must be allowed to function and be attended is the heart.

Michael Mendizza and Joseph Chilton Pearce’s inspiring book Magical Parent-Magical Child

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Para vivir una vida creativa, debemos perder nuestro miedo a equivocarnos" (Joseph Chilton Pearce)

There is no logical, rational, pre-structured criterion "out there" with a divine plan. There is no truth "out there" which our weak minds or souls eventually run across. There is this casual, haphazard, amoral process that leaps the logical gaps and brings about newness. And the procedurés only demand is that given talents be invested, risked, doubled, the possibilities explored.

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

Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life.

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

Most people respond automatically to their given circle of representation, and strengthen it by their unconscious allegiance. Since their cultural circle is made of many conflicting drives for their allegiance,

Joseph Chilton Pearce writes, “What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Certainly, we are all born empathic and sensitive to vibrations. In Evolution’s End, Joseph Chilton Pearce describes how, a few days after conception, the embryo forms a clump of vibrating cells that becomes the new heart. These cells seem to be sound sensitive and tune to the mother’s heartbeat and breath, which appear to be necessary for further forming the infant’s heart. The mother’s emotional state, and any repetitive patterns of behavior, are imprinted on the fetus hormonally and through the tone of her voice.

Most people respond automatically to their given circle of representation, and strengthen it by their unconscious allegiance. Since their cultural circle is made of many conflicting drives for their allegiance, their lives are fragmented and ambiguous.

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. —JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE, INTRODUCTION TO Teaching Children to Love BY DOC LEW CHILDRE

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

«Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados». JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

The truth is, that it really doesn't matter what other people think and it really doesn't matter if you make mistakes. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce