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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God’s creative pulse itself. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. MARY DALY

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.

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

This aspatial and atemporal Reality, which alone is immortal, simultaneously and paradoxically interpenetrates the cosmos in all its levels of manifestation and is therefore also the ultimate spiritual core of the human being. Without the immanence of the Divine, liberation would be impossible. Without its transcendence, liberation would be meaningless. Because the various levels of the cosmos, apart from the visible aspect of our earth world, are accessible only through the pathway of meditation or inner vision, the three-dimensional cosmographic descriptions found in the Tantras and Purānas are little more than (perhaps even rather misleading) simplifications of what in fact is an enormously complex higher-dimensional reality. In any case, it is a reality that is an integral part of the experience of Tantric masters and that therefore should not be dismissed purely on the basis of our knowledge of the sensory world. The higher and lower planes are quite like the layers of an onion, and they are to the macrocosm what the “sheaths” (kosha) are to the individual human being as a microcosm. This parallelism is fundamental to Tantric spiritual practice, and I will have occasion to discuss its symbolism in subsequent chapters in connection with the structures of the subtle body (such as the cakras and nādīs). To penetrate, in meditation, the subtle coverings of the physical body means to transcend the visible and the invisible realms and realize the divine Self, the ultimate Reality. Escaping the Prison of the World The goal of Tantra Yoga, as of any Yoga, is to crack the cosmic egg, to use Joseph Chilton Pearce’s obliging metaphor. To do so implies the transcendence of the fabric of space-time. Since the world is not something that is merely external to us but is part of our consciousness, and vice versa, there is no question of any spatial trajectory out of the world. Liberation is an intrapsychic event. Hence Pearce was right when he offered a figurative, psychological interpretation of the cosmic egg:

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE When you are feeling depreciated, angry or drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy. SANAYA ROMAN

Escaping the Prison of the World The goal of Tantra Yoga, as of any Yoga, is to crack the cosmic egg, to use Joseph Chilton Pearce’s obliging metaphor. To do so implies the transcendence of the fabric of space-time. Since the world is not something that is merely external to us but is part of our consciousness, and vice versa, there is no question of any spatial trajectory out of the world. Liberation is an intrapsychic event. Hence Pearce was right when he offered a figurative, psychological interpretation of the cosmic egg: