“ 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
“ 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 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… 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,… 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… 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 'th… Joseph Chilton Pearce
“ Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions 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 the… 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 wh… Joseph Chilton Pearce
“ Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life. 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 real… Joseph Chilton Pearce
