Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”

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

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

“Life is magical, and the magic is in us.”

“The heart-brain is our primary organ of intelligence.”

“Awe is the prerequisite for all learning.”

“Our heart is our primary organ of perception.”

“The great matrix of the heart is the field of all possibilities.”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“Our task is not to fix the child, but to create a world in which the child can flourish.”

“The optimal state of learning is one of playfulness.”

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

“We are moving from a world of information to a world of imagination.”

“The brain is an instrument, the heart is the intelligence that uses it.”

“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”

“The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons of our fears and anxieties lie within.”

“The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master.”