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

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

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.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

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

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

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.