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Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

Tags: changes, outer, seeing, vision, within

An enormous force bends all lines into circles.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

An enormous force bends all lines into circles.

Tags: circle circus, fourth dimension, la la la, reality plane

About Author
Joseph Chilton Pearce (January 14, 1926 – August 23, 2016) was an American author of a number of books on human development and child development and is best known for his books, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg (1971), Magical Child (1977) and The Bond of Power: Meditation and Wholeness (1981). He preferred the name "Joe".

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tags: being wrong, creativity, fear of failure

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

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...

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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

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.

Tags: la la la, life philosophy

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

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Tags: parenting, parenting advice, parenting tip

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tags: fear, courage, creativity, inaction, just do it

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tags: intelligence, sports, play, way

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

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...

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

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...

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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

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,...

Tags: yes

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...