Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes & Sayings

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Seeing within changes one's outer vision. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

We must become the people we want our children to be. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Any representation of God produces accordingly. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

An enormous force bends all lines into circles. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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! — Joseph Chilton Pearce