Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes

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.

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

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

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

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.

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.

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

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