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What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother and father, pulls out all the stops. In the course of time, he tries out his power to disrupt, to destroy, to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle, and to appropriate ... At the start he absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development.
The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
Nevertheless, with reference to the natural process of childbirth one thing can seldom be forgotten, the fact that the human infant has an absurdly big head.
The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.
Somewhere in the scheme of things there can be room for everyone to live creatively. This involves retaining something personal, perhaps secret, that is unmistakably yourself. If nothing else, try breathing, something no one can do for you.
It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.
Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
What is good is always being destroyed
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.
