Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes

United States, Author
January 14, 1926 – August, 23, 2016.

Joseph Chilton Pearce 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".

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

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
- Women
- Knowledge
- Infant

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Vision
- Within
- Outer
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
- Reality
- Thinkers
- Adjust
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
- Want
- Child
- Become
Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Power
- Position
- Comfort

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Play
- Road
- Happiness